BICHOLIM: The NCP President Sharad Pawar has urged the people to send home both the BJP and the Congress, the former for stopping mining and the latter for supporting it.
Addressing a public meeting in Sanquelim on Sunday, Pawar said, “ Today in Sanquelim there is mining problem and former chief minister Manohar Parrikar is responsible for the same. As mining was stopped abruptly, the same way demonetisation was done. About 11 crore people stood in queue for getting their own money. Everywhere in the world we were made a laughing stock.” “ Even though Goa is small, it is famous all over the world. It is because of the Goan culture, secularism and all these aspects have been preserved in the State. There is need to preserve it,” Pawar said. Sanquelim NCP candidate Pratap Gawas came down on Parrikar heavily saying that he “ is not concerned with the defence of the country.” Party General Secretary Praful Patel said, “ Congress has always tried to avoid people. In Goa, there are several problems including mining, regional plan and other issues which are kept hanging since last several years. BJP did not implement RP as they wanted to make money.” He informed that he had given sanction for Mopa airport, when he was the minister for civil aviation in the UPA government led by then prime minister Manmohan Singh. Maharastra Mahila President Chitra Wagh said that BJP failed to fulfil even a single promise at the State and national level. Meanwhile, addressing an election rally in Vasco, Pawar accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of missing important issues in his speech at Goa. PARTY MEETING
