VASCO
A new party office of Indian National Congress party for Cortalim constituency belonging to Congress leader Olencio Simoes was inaugurated at Cansaulim on Sunday afternoon on the ocassion of 73rd birth anniversary of former Cortalim MLA and Minister late Mathany Saldhana
The inauguration was done at the hands of Curtorim MLA Alex Reginaldo Lourenco in the presence of GPCC President Girish Chodankar ,a large number of fishermen , members of Goenchya Ramponkarancho Ekvott , Congress dignitaries, Nitin Chopdekar, Nilesh Vasant Naik, Arun Galve, Peter Fernandes, Lopinho Xavier and others .
Congress leader Girish Chodankar said that people are fed up with BJP and the BJP govt has failed to solve unemployment, inflation, three linear projects, rise in crime rate etc. "People see the best option left with them is Congress."
Chodankar also stated that Olencio Simoes has been fighting for the cause of the downtrodden and is the only one who carrying forward the late Matanhy Saldanha legacy which the BJP has failed miserably to take forward.
Olencio Simoes, a relative of Late Mathany Saldanha said that office premises was also used by late Matanhy Saldanha who had worked tirelessly for the people of Cortalim.
"It was in this office where late CM Manohar Parrikar had promised the people of Cortalim that he will not allow double tracking and complete late Mathany's dreams for Cortalim and Goa, but sadly the present CM Pramod Sawant is all out to sell Goa to only benefits his crony capitalist friends from Gujarat.Although BJP was in power for two terms in Cortalim, several works which Mathany wanted such as Fish market complex in Cansaulim, rehabilitation of Zuarinagar residents, etc has remained pending. People will this time support the Congress party and our office will be open to take up issues of the people.I appeal to the people of Goa that Goa has only one option to defeat BJP and that is to bring congress to power in 2022 election," Said Simoes.
