PANJIM: Giving clear indications of an aggressive stance and raising many eyebrows, Dy Chief Minister and Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai on Tuesday said his party would go to any extent to protect ‘Goemkarponn’ and may even ‘weaponise’ its youth wing for the purpose.
Addressing party workers and the media after inaugurating the plush office of GFP in the capital city, Sardesai said, “People often say we are aggressive but I would tell them we will take the party forward aggressively,” he said.
Drawing attention to the recent issue of domicile taken up by the Goa Forward youth wing, Sardesai said the issue is very serious and the Chief Minister has to give it serious thinking. “Not only university staff but for government staff also domicile has to be compulsory. Goa has to be for Goans and if this does not happen, we are ready to go to any lengths,” he asserted adding, “To save interest of Goans we are ready to go anywhere.”
On the domicile issue, he stated that if the government has made a mistake he will back the Goa Youth Forward totally. “If need be we will weaponise them (Youth Forward) to see that Goemkarponn is protected. We are ready to go back on roads to protect Goemkarponn and we need support of all Goans,” he said.
He added that if aggression is bringing good for Goans than aggression should be looked at as a means to an end.
Speaking about the growth of his party, the Dy Chief Minister said, people taunted him when he started the party as it fielded just four candidates in 2017 saying what could be party’s future if they can’t field 40 candidates. “People just wrote us off. Many did not know what Goa Forward was. However, there were many who supported our slogan of Goem, Goemkar and Geomkarponn – a simple agenda which was neglected by everyone,” he said.
He said the party took the slogan seriously and got three MLAs out of four candidates elected. “I think this was a history in the country that three MLAs of a new party won and all become ministers. But for this we also had to take curses from some people. But let me tell you those who cursed are still on internet and facebook and we have reached in a new office,” he stated.
He asserted that Goa Forward is the fastest and strongest growing regional party in the country. “Some regional parties are communal, some are casteists. We are with just one true agenda. We don’t believe in caste and religion. Our agenda is only Goemkar first,” he said.
Sardesai said that when he says Goemkar it does not make his party less patriotic, “We are equally patriotic but we say Goemkar first. We not only say it we have proven by action.”
He said due to his party’s consistent efforts the Opinion Poll has now been brought in school curriculum. On statue of Dr Jack Sequira at Assembly Complex, he said, “It will happen, if God is with us.”
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