[Goanet] Goa sulks for being left out ?

[Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com]

Goa sulks for being left out   NT Staff Reporter
  
 
  Panaji, April 6 The decision of the Congress high command and the Prime 
Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, not to induct any of the Goan members of 
Parliament in the cabinet during the reshuffle of the Union cabinet carried out 
today in New Delhi has taken the state Congress by surprise.
  The Congressmen had been expecting either of the two Goan MPs to be included 
in the cabinet but the decision of the party leadership to ignore the claim of 
the state has surprised them.
  “We are surprised at the step-motherly treatment meted out to Goa by the 
party and want them to do damage control before it was too late,” said a 
senior Congress leader who did not want to be identified.
  Another senior Congress leader said that injustice has been done to Goa, 
despite it being a state, and Congressmen at large, adding that it was the 
right of the state and Congress to get a representation in the government. He 
further said that earlier whenever Congress was in power the state was always 
represented in the cabinet and this was for the first time that Goa’s claims 
have been ignored.
  A senior office-bearer of Goa pradesh Congress committee said that 
expectations of the party men are always high when it is power and that 
everybody wants that at least one of its MPs be inducted in the Union cabinet, 
which would have help in better and faster development of the state, ahead of 
parliamentary elections to be held in less than a year’s time from now.
  Meanwhile, the GPCC has decided to raise the issue of step-motherly treatment 
to the state with the all-India Congress committee general-secretary, Mr B K 
Hariprasad, during his visit to the state on Tuesday and present memorandum to 
him to convey the sad feelings of the state to the party high command on Goa 
being ignored in the cabinet reshuffle and urge the high command to immediately 
induct one of Goan MPs in the Union cabinet.

       
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