Congress-led Goa government impotent: BJP
By IANSSunday, June 20, 2010
PANAJI - Goa’s Congress-led coalition government is “impotent” and “useless”, state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Laxmikant Parsekar said Sunday, pointing to the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
Addressing reporters after the party’s state executive committee meeting, Parsekar also said that the Digambar Kamat-led government had failed on every front, be it law and order, environment protection, tourism or checking corruption.
“This government is nalayak (useless) and shand (impotent),” Parsekar said, adding that the government was only out to fleece the common man, whom it had promised to care for in the run up to the 2007 assembly elections.
“The very fact that the police has failed to trace and arrest an ex-minister who is allegedly involved in a murder case proves the inefficiency of the protectors of law,” said Parsekar, reading out a resolution which was unanimously passed at the state executive meeting.
“The total failure of the law and order machinery can be seen from the tremendous increase in cases of murders, rapes, robberies, dacoities, desecration of religious structures and atrocities against women,” Parsekar said, adding that the BJP would soon expose the minister whose son allegedly has links to the drug mafia in Goa.
“Look at the state of affairs. Drug trade has reached the doorstep of a minister’s house. And the police can do nothing about it,” said Parsekar, who is a legislator from Mandrem.
Parsekar also said that the chief minister was unable to control his council of ministers, whose bitter public spats are being reported in local newspapers almost every day.
“The ministers not only publicly criticise one another, but also accuse each other of mismanagement and misgovernance…leading to groupism, thus adversely affecting the all-round development of the state,” Parsekar said.
The Congress-led government has the Nationalist Congress Party, Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, an independent legislator and another unattached legislator as alliance partners.
