Goa Khabar : Sunday as Aam Aadmi Party Goa staged a biting protest under its #BJPCheBurak campaign an ambulance with a patient passed the protest which pointed at worst the condition of roads affecting people.
AAP leaders sat on potholes and planted BJP flags in them, declaring that every road crater in Goa is BJP’s true legacy. The protest, ridiculed the Pramod Sawant-led government and its PWD department for turning roads into death traps while splurging taxpayers’ money.
Taking on the BJP government, AAP Goa President Adv. Amit Palekar said, “This is the reality of BJP’s Governance. Fourteen hundred crore rupees have been spent and what we have is a capital city full of potholes. Some of these craters can swallow a scooter. So we thought, why not plant BJP flags here? After all, every pothole in Goa belongs to them.”
Palekar hit out at the PWD’s incompetence, saying, “There is no system, no accountability, no shame. Work only begins when AAP points out the potholes. So, as a service to their incompetency, we decided to sit on potholes ourselves and show them where the work is pending. This is the only way roads get fixed under BJP.”
He added that AAP’s newly launched helpline has been flooded with complaints, and that data will be compiled and submitted to the government. “We will go to every corner of Goa and continue this fight until contractors are punished and PWD engineers are held accountable,” he said.
AAP General Secretary (Organisation) Shrikrishna Parab called out the government’s hollow promises: “The PWD launched an app that shows 548 pothole complaints received and 100% resolved. That dashboard is a joke. Just step outside and see the reality. The government is not just incompetent, it is shamelessly dishonest.”
Slamming BJP’s misgovernance, AAP Working President Rajesh Kalgantukar said, “Not just roads, every department under BJP is full of buraks. Even the treasury has holes. Where the taxpayers’ money goes, through which hole, nobody knows. Contractors deliver shoddy work, potholes reappear in 15 days, and still they face no punishment. This is the BJP model”.
Highlighting the corruption in contracts, AAP Vice President Sunil Signapurkar said, “Three months ago, the CM released tenders for pre-monsoon work. Within days of repair, potholes returned. Now post-monsoon tenders will be handed out to the same failed contractors. If BJP is serious, it should seize contractors’ deposits and hold engineers accountable. But instead of punishing failure, they reward it.”
