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PANAJI
A senior leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Goa, Dr Oscar Rebello, on Saturday posed questions to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on failure of the state government to fulfil what the party had promised during the 2012 election.
Dr Rebello, while addressing the media along with Pankaj Gupta from Delhi, and Valmiki Naik, candidate for Panaji constituency, said that “one of the most emotive issues during the 2012 election was casinos. Now, the BJP is openly supporting the casinos. What Modiji’s opinion about this?”
He also posed questions before the Prime Minister as to what happened to the promised plan of conferring a special status on Goa in 2014, and, “What happened to the Regional Plan, which the BJP had promised to denotify?”
“What happened to ‘doles’ for the unemployed and where are the 50,000 jobs promised to the youth by the BJP in 2012 manifesto,” he asked.
“It was promised to recover the mining loot. So, the AAP wants to know how much was recovered in the last five years,” he said.
In the end, Dr Rebello charged the BJP of having an undeclared alliance with the Congress.
“In Panaji, the Congress has not fielded a candidate, and in Navelim, the BJP has not fielded a candidate against Luizinho Faleiro,” he said and added that “though the AAP is sweeping Goa, if the BJP and the Congress get into a position to form the government, will the two parties form an alliance? These questions the prime minister should reply.”
To a question: ‘Whether the AAP has delivered in Delhi as per the promise?’, he said that “we do not want to explain any further and added, “If any one has any relations, ties or friends in Delhi, those persons would be able to know whether we have failed or it is just the rumours that are being spread.”
He said that silently majority of the Goans have realised that the AAP is surging ahead in the state and may romp home with a majority.