PANAJI
Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Babu Kavalekar informed that all 16 members of the Congress Legislature Party are contemplating on a private member’s resolution on the first day of the session supporting the installation of the statue of Dr Jack Sequeira within the Assembly complex.
The CLP on Friday discussed its strategy for the upcoming session of the Assembly scheduled to begin on February 19.
“We will take the government to task over its non-performance during its one year in power. All the promises made by the ruling coalition on the floor of the House since the first session of this Assembly have remained unfulfilled and we will seek answers,” Kavalekar stated.
He said that the CLP will raise questions over the issue of casino policy, river nationalization and coal pollution in Vasco.
Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco said that the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will also be held to task for the mismanagement of the Mhadei issue. “Mhadei has become a dicey issue. CM has to answer his own speaker and deputy speaker, if not us,” Reginaldo stated.
In addition to this, Reginaldo levelled allegations against the CM for his failure to initiate any new developmental projects in the constituencies represented by the Opposition. “He has approved projects for Rs 25 crore in the ruling party’s constituencies. But no new tenders have been introduced for works in our constituencies. There is high pendency of work orders as well,” the Curtorim MLA lashed out.
CLP is scheduled to meet on February 16 following the receipt of replies from the departments concerned in order to finalize its strategy for the upcoming Assembly session.
It also passed a unanimous resolution to demand the state to write to the Union government recommending an amendment to the Motor Vehicles Act in order to exempt Goan tourist taxis from the compulsion of fitting speed governors.
Congress president Shantaram Naik said, “Considering the small size and topography of Goa, CLP has unanimously resolved to ask the state government to request an amendment to Section 112 of the Motor Vehicles Act vis a vis fitment of speed regulation devices.”
Naik said that Congress is of the opinion that the state is entitled to regulate speed without fitment of a mechanical speed regulation device. He said that the tourist taxi operators, who went on a three-day-long strike in January, had explained that the device hampers the functioning of the taxi engine and
other parts.
