BJP playing fraud in Goa, says Congress

PANAJI: The Congress Saturday pledged it would take up the issue of the “fraud on the constitution” being played out by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa during the upcoming winter session of the Parliament, party’s chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said.

Surjewala accused “unknown and unseen faces who are not elected by the people of Goa” of usurping power in the name of Manohar Parrikar “to ensure a crippled administration and a paralysed governance.”

The latest Congress broadside came on a day when the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, a crucial ally to the ruling BJP government, issued yet another ultimatum to the BJP to replace the ailing Parrikar else they will be forced to withdraw support to the government. “Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are holding the progress, the constitutional government and the democratic setup of Goa to ransom by running it through faceless shenanigans,” Surjewala said.

“If necessary we will move the president of India. We will also raise the issue inside the Parliament in the forthcoming winter session. Goa is the most classic case of fraud being played on the constitution of India by the governor and the BJP government,” he said.

Besides the Congress, the BJP’s own alliance partner, the MGP, demanded that the chief minister’s charge be handed over to senior minister and MGP minister Ramkrishna “Sudin” Dhavalikar .

“The central committee of the party has resolved to urge the government to find a replacement for Parrikar, who is ill, at the earliest. Because of his illness, the administration has been paralysed for eight months. He should hand over charge to someone else as soon as possible,” MGP president Deepak the brother of Sudin, told reporters after a meeting of the MGP committee held in the capital city Saturday.