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MARGAO: Goa Forward Party Working President Kiran Kandolkar on Tuesday urged the party workers to work unitedly to win the St Andre seat.
“This constituency lacks development and the only way to get development here is to elect Jagdish Bhobe as your MLA,” said Kiran Kandolkar while addressing the party’s block committee meeting at Pilar in the St Andre Constituency where Vice President Durgadas Kamat, General Secretary Mohandas Lolienkar and Employee Forward Convenor John Nazareth attended.
“I am sure the way you (Bhobe) are going ahead we will win St Andre seat with a margin of 5,000 votes,” said Kandolkar.
GFP candidate for St Andre Jagdish Bhobe appealed to all workers of the party to keep interacting and reaching out to the people in the constituency, so that a constituency specific manifesto can be prepared after taking inputs from the people.
“We have to do what our people want for the constituency, the GFP ethos is to practise development by consent,” said Bhobe.
“For the last 20 years our people have been fooled by the incumbent MLA Francis Silveira who recently switched side to BJP and has failed even to provide toilets,” said Bhobe.
“Our constituency is still backward due to the misdeeds of this MLA. The time has come for us to unitedly take St Andre forward and save our collective future,” said Bhobe.
Bhobe reminded those who attended the meeting that, “In 2016, just one year prior to the assembly elections, BJP had said that they would give 10,000 jobs in Goa Shipyard but even failed to give 100 jobs for locals. Now they have come out with the same old broken record to fool our youth by saying that in this election year 10,000 govt jobs would be given. This fake BJP promise should be brought to the notice of the youth and the people of St Andre. Have the BJP lived up to anything they say?” asked Bhobe.
Further, GFP leader Nazareth also appealed to the workers to the work together to ensure a decisive victory.
He said, “I joined this party just four months ago and I have seen the tremendous amount of respect our party President Vijai Sardesai gives to the office bearers and workers of the party. We work like a family.”
“I trust and know the vision Vijai-bab and the GFP have for Goa, and I have seen it after interacting with him for the last four months. I am eager and excited to be part of this movement to Save Goa now as one Team Goa. We need such leaders to take Goa Forward, and I appeal to you all to stand firmly behind Jagdish Bhobe who will usher St Andre with developmental works once he is elected as a MLA. I can sense the wave of change in St Andre; people want to get rid of this useless MLA, who has switched to BJP for his personal gains,” he added.
Vice President Kamat said that Party President Vijai Sardesai would be soon touring St Andre Constituency to meet the citizens.
He also said that in coming days many youth and local leaders would be embracing the party to strengthen the hands of Goa Forward candidate Bhobe to take St Andre forward.
