MARGAO
Congress election observer P Chidambaram said that the BJP does not care for Parliament and the opposition parties, but fears only the elections. He made a humble plea to the people of Goa to use the 2022 Assembly elections to end the 10-year misrule of the BJP government and vote for the one that would listen to the people and act according to their wishes.
After participating in the Congress’ ongoing Margayecho Jagor in Margao early Saturday morning along with Opposition leader Digambar Kamat, Congress working president Aleixo Sequeira, party Vice-president M K Sheikh, district president Joe Dias and others, Chidambaram told the people that the BJP at the centre and in Goa is too big, too powerful, too arrogant that it has not time to listen to the people.
The only way to safeguard the people is to end this government. When we cannot mend the government, we have to end the government. The time has come to end the BJP government in Goa in 2022 and usher in a government under the Congress to enjoy the fruits of development, where the unemployed will get jobs and there will be security and safety for women and children, he said
Reminding the BJP that all decisions in a parliamentary democracy should be taken in Parliament after debate, Chidambaram said Goa too has been facing serious problems, including the serious issue of the three linear projects, coal hub, Bhumiputra Bill, mining etc.
“Goa is also facing the biggest problem of unemployment, with around 40,000 youth migrating outside the state every year just because there are no jobs in the state. All this can be changed when we have a government that listens to the people,” he asserted.
Opposition leader Digambar Kamat said the appointment of P Chidambaram as the Congress party’s election observer for Goa has helped the party given his rich experience of handling the economy during his stint as the country’s finance minister.
“The BJP only knows to hand out false promises. Former chief minister late Manohar Parrikar had come to power on 2012 by making false promises. Today, the people of Goa are facing inflation and the common man is facing the brunt of the wrong economic policies of the BJP government,” he said, while asking people to end the 10-year misrule.
