PANAJI
With its efforts to woo the Dhavalikar brothers to seal a BJP-MGP alliance for the 2022 polls spurned, BJP's Goa desk in-charge Devendra Fadnavis said that the party was headed for doom on account of its tie-up with the Trinamool Congress, which he said was using Goa purely for political experimentation.
Fadnavis also said that Congress was now reduced to being a part-time party with a part-time leadership, while also accusing the AITC and Aam Aadmi Party of paying lip service to Goa and Goans only during elections.
"I am surprised that political parties which are rooted to the ground here, who know politics, history and culture of Goa like MGP (Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party) are going along with them. This is vinash kale viprit buddhi (losing wisdom in face of doom). This is the state of the MGP we get to see in Goa," Fadnavis said.
Earlier this month, MGP led by the Dhavalikar brothers -- Sudin and Dipak -- spurned overt and covert attempts by BJP to seal an election alliance, choosing to play ball with the West Bengal Chief Minister-led AITC instead.
Fadnavis also lashed out at the AAP and the AITC for using Goa as a ground for political experiments.
"You have seen the situation in Goa. Several political parties are entering Goa. They are making Goa a place for experiments. People are experimenting here with their respective parties. But Goans are clever. They understand who is going to be them and who is going to exit after the polls," the former Maharashtra chief minister said in Panaji.
"These political parties from other places like Delhi, Kolkata, they are here only for elections, do politics, split people and after they lose in elections they head back and do not show their faces for five years," he said, accusing them of having no long-term plans for Goa.
The Maharashtra Leader of Opposition also said that while AAP was 'all talk no show', Fadnavis accused Mamata Banerjee of running a shoddy administration in West Bengal.
"AAP is just a trailer. There is no movie. They only show a trailer. We know that a trailer of any movie is a hit, but after we watch a movie we know the truth. What is there in the trailer is not there in the movie at all," he said.
"Delhi is a half state, they do not have control of the police, road building. They have no responsibility barring water supply, education and health. The central government pumps in crores of rupees there and based on that they are promising subsidies in Goa. They believe they can buy off people from Goa and run their politics," Fadnavis added.
Mamata Banerjee, the Goa desk in-charge said, could not lay claims to have run a good administration in the eastern state.
"I want to ask Mamata didi, if her administration is so good then why is Bengal the way it is? Why is there not a single investment? Why does Bengal have the highest unemployment among bigger states? Why does Bengal have the most number of crimes? Why does Bengal have the most riots? Why does Bengal have the most number of atrocities?" he said.
