PANAJI
Aam Aadmi Party leader Alina Saldanha on Friday challenged Panchayat Minister and Cortalim ex-MLA Mauvin Godinho to show one development project he has worked on during his 20-year-old tenure as MLA.
In a press release, AAP stated that Godinho publicly pitched Sancoale Sarpanch Girish Pillai for the BJP candidature from the Cortalim constituency to defeat former MLA Alina Saldanha. During a public function at Zuarinagar, Godinho stated that the people of the Cortalim constituency need a person with experience and the readiness to work for the people from the panchayat areas.
Saldanha stated that Godinho hasn’t done anything. The only white elephant he had created during his tenure is the Kala Bhavan which is happening now and still going on. “I was refusing to take up this project because Kala Bhavan was started without a parent department. That is the reason it took us almost one and half years to find somebody. Nobody wanted to take responsibility. Even the Kala Bhavan minister refused to take the responsibility and asked to complete the project and handover to them”.
“As far as the Sancoale sarpanch is concerned, like his mentor, he has not done anything. He was the sarpanch for three years. He did nothing except lay the foundation stone for the Panchayatghar in the office. How long people are going to wait?” questioned Saldanha.
