PANAJI
said Girish Chodankar, AICC secretary while reacting to sudden intensified pressure from agencies like SIT on issues which was raised by BJP to win 2012 Assembly polls.
He said, it was not only him or Congress Party but also people of Goa are wondering that BJP government was using mining issue once again to fulfill its political goal of ensuring stability of ‘immoral’ minority government and keeping mine owners under constant pressure in order to exploit them.
Chodankar said, the then leader of opposition Manohar Parrikar during the period of 2007 to 2012 had cried hoarse against Congress government for perpetrating a mining scam, which the BJP had then valued at Rs 3,500 crore to 25,000 crore.
He added that Parrikar even used PAC (Public accounts Committee) report to inform the people of Goa with only intention to paint Congress government as corrupt and that the report was never approved by PAC or assembly.
“Such gimmicks were also used by national leaders of BJP to tarnish UPA government in case of 2G spectrum allocation by discovering presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore which they could not prove till date.”
Similarly, coal mine allocation issue of Rs 1.86 lakh crore by using the office of CAG, they succeeded in changing perception of people against the Congress-led UPA to win parliamentary polls but could not prove in both auctions. “BJP is very good making wild allegations using inflated figures supported by cheap publicity stunt to confuse people for votes,” he said.
“If BJP was serious about getting to the bottom of the mining scam they could have easily investigated during 2012-17 term when they had absolute majority in Goa,”
he said.
along with central government. During this period our party were consistently demanded from Parrikar to prove his claim on mining allegations and since he failed we named them as U-turn Govt, Chodankar recalled.
He said “Considering timings of investigations, We are convinced beyond doubt that this investigation is only to ensure stability of his immoral government to keep pressure on MLAs and to also to keep pressure on mining companies and we are confident that BJP after five years will term it as another JUMLA”
He said that they party was against illegal mining and government should firmly deal with them but the party is strongly against using it to fulfill BJP’s political vendetta and hidden agenda and to buy stability for the government.
