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PANAJI
A day after the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report stating that the Goa government had performed poorly on a majority of the top ten governance issues, Congress slammed the government for its poor performance.
Said spokesperson Trajano D’Mello said, “They’ve even performed poorly on providing drinking water and clean air. People lost their jobs after demonetisation.”
Slamming BJP MPs Narendra Sawaikar and Shripad Naik, Trajano said, “The MPs had a part in the non-performance. They couldn’t even get an appointment with the PM to discuss the mining issue.”
Spokesperson Adv Rohit Bras De Sa called the ADR report credible and said, “Even the government has not questioned its credibility. A systematic method was followed which got the voters’ views on their priorities.”
De Sa said the findings were crucial. Stressing on unemployment in the state, he said, “Despite Masters’ degrees, youth are not getting jobs.”
The Congress also reminded people of the cautionary advice issued by ADR saying, “People have to elect properly as once a candidate is elected, the electorate loses power over him.”
When questioned about CM Manohar Parrikar being unwell during the time of the survey (Oct-Dec 2018), D’Mello said this was irrelevant. “BJP was on record saying the CM was hail and hearty and that governance was not affected. They said this in an affidavit. So smooth functioning of the government at that time was their responsibility,” said D’Mello, adding, “If the CM was not functioning well, they could have changed him.”
