PANAJI: All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday released a nine-point ‘chargesheet’ against the BJP government that has been at the helm of the state for close to 10 years. TMC accused BJP of inept handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, failing to protect Goa’s ecology and identity, and not addressing the rising unemployment in the state.
Addressing reporters at Azad Maidan, TMC national vice-president Luizinho Faleiro said successive governments have led Goa backwards and have done little to increase private sector employment and to protect the interests of locals.
In the chargesheet, TMC accused BJP of mismanaging the state’s economy, the mining sector and the Covid-19 pandemic. The chargesheet also points to “state-sponsored environmental destruction” despite public opposition. TMC blamed past and present governments for betraying fishermen andfarmers, destroying healthcare and education, and slammed the rising crimes against women.
TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and Saugata Roy along with former BJP MP Babul Supriyo were present at the release of the chargesheet. The party has already announced its decision to contest the assembly elections in Goa and its MPs and senior functionaries have arrived in Goa ahead of West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s visit to the state scheduled for Thursday.
“We are here for the women who cannot walk safely on the streets, for the youth who cannot get jobs,” Moitra said while speaking to reporters. “The Goa government has failed its people for the past 20 years, whichever government it was. The government of today is not one that was given the mandate by the people of Goa.”
Supriyo expressed confidence that his party will do “very well” in the Goa assembly elections due early next year. “Law and order in Goa has reached an abysmal bottom under this government. These are the reasons why we are here. We think Goa deserves better and Mamata Banerjee can do it,” said Moitra.
She also said that giving adequate representation to women in the state assembly and in Parliament is in TMC’s DNA.
