Panaji: In a scathing attack on BJP Government, Congress Senior leader Girish Chodankar on Tuesday stated that BJP’s Ministers are more interested in ‘Healthy and wealthy’ portfolios than to work in the interest of public.
Citing reports of Minister Ramesh Tawadkar’s dissatisfaction with his assigned portfolios due to lack of funds, Chodankar claimed that the BJP’s ‘Mission Commission’ is being exposed.
Chodankar, AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, stated that BJP’s new minister Ramesh Tawadkar apparently in Party’s meeting that the portfolios given to him don’t have दम (strong) but what he actually meant was they don’t have दाम (Money).
“Do ministers need portfolios to serve the people, or to make money. If he wish for public the he can helps our youths through sports and Art and Culture Department. Even he has tribal department, which he can use for welfare of ST people. But it seems he wants portfolios only which are financially strong and not bankrupt, which he has been given,” Chodankar said, adding Tawadkar should find out way to make his departments “Revenue Swayampurna’ and not ‘CommissionPurna”.
Chodankar said that Minister Tawadkar has even threatened to resign if not given strong portfolios. Tawadkar has even taunted CM using Konkani proverb “The king has taken away even the beggar’s last morsel”
“People of the state are aware how the BJP Government has looted while refurbishing Kala Akademy. I agree with Tawadkar that these departments are bankrupt and may be only because BJP government has looted them,” Chodankar said.
