PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party got a shot in the arm with former BJP worker and ZP candidate from Sattari taluka Ganpat Gaonkar joining the party in the presence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. He addressed his first press conference on Sunday in the presence of AAP Goa convenor Rahul Mhambre and AAP Goa Vice President Valmiki Naik, according to a press note.
Gaonkar, a former BJP and Independent ZP candidate and also a former member of the North Goa District executive, is a practicing advocate since the last 20 years. He had been a BJP member for a period of 15 years before he quit in the year 2020 to contest the Zilla Parishad as an independent candidate. Gaonkar is a major force on land rights issues in Sattari since the year 1999 and has also participated in several land rights movements. He has been part of the struggles of the villagers of Saleli and the recent Meluli protests as well. He is also the director of the Sattari Taluka Farmers’ Co-operative Society since 2014, states the press note.
“We have to end the dictatorship of the father son Rane duo in Sattari. In the last 15 years no development activity has taken place in Sattari, due to which the situation has only deteriorated. They run Sattari, Valpoi and Poriem as if it is their personal fief. There are hardly any jobs due to which many families have come below the poverty line,” Ganpat Gaonkar stated.
‘Party growing as challenger’
PANAJI: The Aam Aadmi Party reiterated its attack on BJP that is in the process of changing its Chief Minister two months before elections. The BJP has accepted that Pramod Sawant’s government has failed Goa, according to a press note.
AAP leader Amit Palekar stated that the BJP’s failures are apparent to all Goenkars and they are looking for now is a scapegoat. The BJP has done the same in Uttarakhand and in Gujarat where it has seen AAP growing as a challenger. The government fails at showing any development work that they have done because there’s no work that has been done, stated Palekar in the press note.
