PANAJI: The present government is indirectly hitting out at the Church to cover up its own failures, the Aam Aadmi Party in the state has said.
“Those who are let loose to attack the church have nothing to say on issues relating to welfare or livelihoods of the people of the state,” AAP’s Goa convener Elvis Gomes has said.
The party challenged the Government to show what positive work had been carried out for the welfare of the people in the last one year.
General Secretary Pradeep Padgaonkar said that the establishment’s “Church pe Charcha” will not help the BJP to erase the criminal charges faced by its BJP MLAs.
Elivs reminded the government about the forgotten common minimum programme and asked those in government to, instead attacking the church, speak on the issues of stoppage of recruitments in the health, education departments, crumbling educational infrastructure like the cases in Kannibag in Morpila and in Bicholim, lack of drinking water in areas such as Padi Dhangarwadi, prevention of rapes of innocent children, uncontrolled import of migrant labour without facilities for their habitation, rampant filling of agricultural fields, silence over documented corruption in sports, transport and other departments and the grant of monuments to corporates from outside Goa after rendering them orphans through neglect.
He demanded that Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho step down as “it was not possible for the Public Prosecutor to be fair in prosecuting a cabinet minister who was the PP’s boss. “The demand from some quarters to appoint a special PP is justified. else let the ministers resign for a fair trial,” he said.
