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Congress candidate for the Panaji by-poll Girish Chodankar launched his ‘manifesto' for Panaji taking a swipe at Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for failing the city despite representing it for more than two decades. "A man who has been the chief minister and a union minister, Parrikar, who has been the MLA for the last 23 years, and in those years, he cannot resolve the problems and needs an officer to find solutions, shows that Parrikar has been a complete failure. If after 20 years, the MLA does not know the issues of his constituency, then it is a failure. The same issues in his first manifesto are repeated this time," Chodankar said.
In his appeal to the voters of Panaji, Chodankar has questioned how a the Chief Minister who has ruled the city for 23 years "has the audacity to promise the issues faced by the city will be resolved in 365 days."
"Yesterday, we launched our campaign in Miramar. Our focus is to go house to house and we have covered half of Ribandar. Our target is to go to each and every house, to talk to the people," Chodankar said. For his part Kamat expressed confidence that Girish would pull it off.
"I am confident, that in the manner in which Girish Chodankar has started his campaign, he will get their support and stand behind him," Kamat said. State party president termed Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar a trespasser to the chair. "The chief minister who is sitting on the chair is a trespasser and I got sound reason for saying that he is a trespasser on the chair. The situation in which he took the post, despite not having the majority. He pulled the MLAs towards him in a manner that even Nitin Gadkari, the architect of the government formation, he would not have also imagined how he would form the government," Naik said.
