PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party launched a protest as the petrol price touched Rs 100 per litre in Goa on Friday.
In a press release, AAP states that its leaders along with supporters held a rally near the Old Secretariat in Panaji and at the Old Bus Stand, Margao. The aim was to address the strong message against the spiralling rise in petrol and cooking gas prices. In the rally people dressed as Pramod Sawant offered cake to Goans filling petrol to "celebrate" the century.
Addressing the media during the protest AAP State convenor Rahul Mhambre said: "Never before have Goans seen such an increase in petrol price which has hit Rs 100 per litre and cooking gas which has touched Rs 900. These hikes have broken the backs of every Goan.
In the press release, AAP further states that BJP in their press conference admitted that there is a huge increase in the number of people falling below the poverty line. Earlier the figure was 30,000 under BPL in Goa, which has now touched 5 lakh - from 3% of Goas population to one-third of Goa's population today. This signifies the reality behind the propaganda around the development and growth BJP has been spewing in Goa and how every household in Goa is on the brink of financial collapse.
"It is evident that when AAP announced about giving free electricity to the Goans, BJP seems to have been completely rattled. BJP has completely trampled the vision that our late CM Manohar Parrikar had for Goa as well as the vision of the late Dayanand Bandodkar who had built the foundation of Goa with a vision for a pro-people of Goa," added Rahul Mhambre.
