PANAJI
Alina Saldanha on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is bereft of principles and certainly not the same party, which her husband, the late Mathany Saldanha was a part of. She also said that if her husband, a noted environmentalist, was alive today, he would have been staging a protest against the policies and actions of the incumbent government led by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
"Most important of all, I was never meant to be a politician. If I am here today, it is because of late Mathany Saldanha, who died of a heart attack out of sheer exhaustion having worked hard to win as the BJP MLA. And if Mathany Saldanha was here today, he would be fasting somewhere or the other, to protect his people and Goa," she told reporters after tendering her resignation as a lawmaker.
Saldanha said that the party in its current phase was not what it used to be when her husband was a part of it.
"I have resigned and I have resigned for valid reasons. I have resigned because the party that late Mathany Saldanha had joined and after his demise, I stepped into his shoes, is no longer the same party. The party seems to have forgotten all its principles and there is bedlam in the state. Nobody knows who's coming into the party, nobody knows who is going out of the party," she said.
