PANAJI: While former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi believed in decentralisation of power and passed on administrative rights to local bodies, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has consolidated decision making powers in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, Congress said here on Friday.
Marking the birth anniversary of Gandhi, opposition leader Digambar Kamat said that BJP has converted Goa into a crony estate for the Centre.
“Gandhi believed in decentralisation of power and passed on the administrative rights to local bodies like panchayats and municipalities. His vision was to empower the common man and woman. BJP government has killed every democratic institution to give powers only to the Modi-Shah duo who have centralised everything by demolishing the federal system,” state Congress president Girish Chodankar said.
Paying tribute to the former prime minister, who was assassinated in May 1991, Kamat said that over the last nine years, the “irresponsible BJP government has converted Goa into a crony estate” and shattered the dreams of Goans.
Kamat has urged Goans to vote for Congress and help the party form the government in 2022. “It is sad that BJP, which formed the government in 2012, failed to keep up with a single promise which they had made to the people of Goa. Today, the BJP government destroyed the identity of Goa by bringing in environmentally destructive projects. They sold our mother Mhadei for political gains,” Kamat said.
State Congress vice-president M K Shaikh urged party workers to follow the discipline of the party and resolve all issues, differences within the party.
