PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party has hit out at the government for indulging in political infighting and drama while Goans are gasping to their death every day.
Reminding that AAP had highlighted the turf war between CM Pramod Sawant and the Health Minister multiple times, Mhambre said that our worst fear that this friction would ultimately cost lives has now come true.
Pointing out that the GMC Nodal officer has now officially admitted the oxygen shortage in the High Court on Wednesday, Mhambre expressed regret that hundreds of valuable Goan lives could have been saved if AAP’s continuous SOS alerts on the oxygen crisis had been heeded.
Mhambre said the Health Minister’s curious demand for a high court investigation into his own department’s functioning, as well as Atanasio Monserrate’s unsolicited statements and demand for a CBI investigation, were all just acts in the political Tiatr that the Bharatiya Janata Party is orchestrating in order to divert people’s attention from its government’s dismal failures.
Mhambre demanded to know, if Rane knew of serious issues that warranted a high court investigation, then why did he stay silent all this while as hundreds of people died under his watch.
Mhambre also questioned Monserrate’s sudden concern for the spiralling Covid crisis, when he was mum about the super-spreader casinos in his own constituency.
Mhambre also ridiculed the CM Sawant for taking a photography crew instead of the Health Minister with him during the visit to Covid wards on Tuesday. Accusing the CM of using the visit only as a photo-op, he remarked that the CM never had any intention of actually solving the issues.
“This was proved by his shocking abdication of responsibility for the oxygen shortage when he blamed the trolley drivers for the delay in oxygen reaching the hospitals,” Mhambre added.
Mhambre slammed the BJP government and sought the intervention of the Governor to keep the people of Goa abreast of the situation at government hospitals as people have lost confidence in CM Sawant and his cabinet.
