CANACONA
Stating that Canacona Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Mahadev Dessai is a betrayer of the Congress Party, Canacona Congress Block President Prahlay Bhagat said Dessai has no right to speak on Congress leader Janardhan Bhandari and the Congress Party.
In a press statement issued on Sunday, Bhagat sharply reacted to the statement made by TMC's Dessai blaming Bhandari for his failure to win the Canacona seat. He termed the remarks as unwarranted and uncalled for.
"TMC's imported candidate Mahadev Dessai who claimed yesterday to be a popular leader of Canacona, could garner only 1066 votes in the Assembly elections. This exposes his popularity and the so-called hard work claimed by him," stated Bhagat.
"It is loud and clear that Mahadev Desai deserted the Congress Party during the Assembly Elections only for selfish gains. He has no moral right to speak about loyal and dedicated Congressman like Janardhan Bhandari. It was the loyalty of Jana Bhandari which helped him get the Congress candidature from Canacona."
Bhagat further said that Bhandari has worked selflessly for the Congress Party for more than 30 years. "He has risen to the top post through grassroots level only after working hard in Student Cell, NSUI, Youth Congress, GPCC and also at Booth, Block & District levels of Congress Party," Bhagat said.
"I want to remind betrayer Mahadev Dessai that Jana Bhandari has led a number of agitations, protests fearlessly from the front, not only in Canacona but across Goa. He was even brutally assaulted in the past by political rivals but he refused to budge and kept the Congress Party alive in Canacona. It was Bhandari who kept the Congress flag flying when the then elected MLA left Congress and defected to the BJP," said Bhagat.
"All the loyal Congressmen in Canacona know Jana’s contribution to the party and don’t need advice from a betrayer like Mahadev Dessai," stated Bhagat. "Mahadev Desai must first learn that taking tuitions from Margao-based so-called political strategist will not help him to win elections. It is the ground connect which helps in winning people's confidence and trust."
"The entire Canacona Block along with all the frontal organisations of the party are with our leader Janardhan Bhandari. We hope that the new leadership in Congress will never fall prey to opportunists and will respect the hard work, loyalty and dedication of true Congress workers," the press note by the president of Canacona Block Congress Committee said.
