VASCO
Hitting out at the State government for its failure to resume mining activities in the Goa, the State Nationalist Congress Party on Friday termed the government as inefficient and also held Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar responsible for the mining issue in Goa.
State NCP President and former minister Jose Philip D’Souza said the BJP-led government was doing nothing about the mining issue and was only fooling people by making false assurances and using people during election time.
“The ordinance route is rejected and this BJP is responsible for this situation. There is no doubt that the BJP government is totally inefficient,” added D’Souza.
“Time and again, they gave fake assurances all these years and it finally boiled down to an ordinance route. Today, it is their own government at the Centre which has rejected the State government’s plea for an ordinance.”
“Presently, everything has come to a standstill and there is no governance. Even after the ordinance has been rejected, they still seek time to fool people again. There is no future for Goans with this BJP government. This cannot continue and they must clearly tell the people if mining will start or not.”
The NCP state president said the mining ban has had a cascading effect and almost everyone from small vendors to big barge owners have been badly hit with this mess that the BJP created.
“Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured Goans at a public meeting that mining activities would resume if they were voted to power at the Centre prior to the 2014 LS elections. The BJP didn’t do anything, except play a cruel joke on the mining dependents,” he said.
Parrikar had even brought Modi to Goa and had assured that they would start mining within one month of attaining power at the Centre. Today, they are present in the State and the Centre, but what have they done? This mess is caused by the Parrikar-led BJP government,” he added.
