After the Goa Ahead Social gathering termed the eight Congress MLAs’ transfer of becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering an “act of pure evil”, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday stated GFP chief Vijai Sardesai himself needed to hitch the ruling social gathering. Sardesai, nevertheless, denied it claiming that being a celebration colleague of CM Sawant wouldn’t solely be a “private insult” for him, but additionally “denigration of ethical, moral and social values”.
The verbal duel between Sawant and Sardesai was witnessed after a bunch of eight Congress MLAs, together with former chief minister Digambar Kamat, on Wednesday joined the ruling BJP, dealing a physique blow to the opposition social gathering which is now left with simply three MLAs within the 40-member Meeting.
Reacting to the political improvement, Sardesai stated that the eight legislators who’ve determined “in opposition to all political propriety, fundamental decency and honesty, to pursue their greed for wealth and starvation for energy, stand at the moment because the symbols of pure evil, displaying their shameless selfishness, avarice and chicanery”.
“The folks of Goa are backstabbed and their religion destroyed first by oaths after which this betrayal, and they’ll word that this act of perfidy comes in the course of the ‘Pitru Paksha’ (interval throughout which Hindus pay homage to their ancestors), when these MLAs selected to repay the money owed to their ancestors,” Sardesai stated.
Responding to Sardesai’s assertion, the chief minister informed a bunch of journalists in Panaji that Sardesai himself needed to hitch the BJP. “He needed to hitch the BJP, however our social gathering didn’t a inexperienced sign to him. That’s the reason he’s levelling the allegations,” Sawant stated. Nevertheless, Sardesai rapidly rubbished chief minister’s assertion by way of a tweet.
“To be the social gathering colleague of @DrPramodPSawant wouldn’t solely be a private insult but additionally a denigration of the ethical, moral and social values that I and all Goemkars (Goans) cherish. It’s despicable {that a} man may be such a criminal to tug his fatherland by way of mud to be in energy,” he tweeted.
With inputs from News18