MARGAO
Virtually launching Goa Forward’s campaign for the ensuing polls for the Margao Municipal Council, Goa Forward Chief Vijai Sardesai on Wednesday said that Fatorda’s model is real Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas.
At the inauguration of the Marlem Community Courtyard on the occasion of the Feast of Epiphany, the MLA said the Fatorda model was that of development by consent which actually meant Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas that needs to be replicated all over Goa.
Unlike the Melauli model, where local elderly women are physically assaulted and trampled upon for a mere demarcation as is happening in the tenure of the present Government, Sardesai took pride in saying that he had never sought police protection for initiating or completing any development in Fatorda in his tenure of nine years.
“The BJP couldn’t teach Fatordekars lessons in development but can only benefit from splitting people on the basis of caste and communities and pave the way for the ganja party’s plan of clandestinely bringing in cannabis cultivation in the state under the guise of medicinal use which will threaten the future of our next generation,” he added.
Sardesai urged Marlem residents and Bordekars to remain united and not get swayed by false promises of jobs which are election stunts that the ruling party is likely to stage.
He lamented that the ruling party had to come out with a helpline number to bridge the divide between the BJP and the people when he as MLA had a helpline for the last nine years that helped every individual bereft of political and religious affiliation in times of distress and emergencies.
He thanked the people of ward 9 for their co-operation in enabling him to develop the area around the Balwadi in Marlem.
The Marlem Community Courtyard has been developed by We For Fatorda, a charitable trust initiative of Vijai Sardesai, into a modern-day yet aesthetically Goan recreational area for the residents of the area.
Sardesai reminded the people of his commitment to all communities that when he was the TCP Minister he had got the SGPDA to earmark approximately 40,000 sq mts of land as institutional zone to enable the construction of St Joaquim Church in Borda.
He also spoke about various developmental projects that he completed during this current tenure as an MLA such as the underground electricity and underground sewerage network which has now 90 percent complete in the Marlem area.
