{"id":106306,"date":"2025-10-09T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106306"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:21:17","slug":"congress-bjp-nexus-in-goa-cm-gifted-iron-ore-to-amit-patkar-palekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106306","title":{"rendered":"Congress-BJP Nexus in Goa; CM gifted Iron Ore to Amit Patkar : Palekar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Goa today exposed a deep nexus between Congress President Amit Patkar and Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant, alleging that Patkar has personally benefitted from iron ore transport permits sanctioned under the BJP government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Addressing a press conference in Panaji, AAP Goa President Amit Palekar revealed that official records from the Goa Legislative Assembly (LAQ data) show that a company linked to Amit Patkar \u2014 Amit Earth Movers \u2014 received iron ore transport permits totaling 89,031.67 tonnes between 2023 and 2025. The ore was transported from Pissurlem and other mines to Vagus, Alcon, NRB, and Maina jetties, all under the jurisdiction of the Chief Minister\u2019s office and the state\u2019s mining department.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cThis data clearly shows how the BJP government, led by Dr. Pramod Sawant, has extended favours to Amit Patkar\u2019s firm. While the people of Goa suffer due to unemployment and corruption, Congress and BJP leaders are hand-in-glove, profiting from Goa\u2019s natural resources,\u201d said Amit Palekar.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Palekar questioned why Patkar has never criticized the Chief Minister publicly despite claiming to oppose the BJP government. \u201cAmit Patkar occasionally targets Health Minister Vishwajit Rane but never says a word against the Chief Minister. He even meets Dr. Sawant secretly. This silence has a price \u2014 and the iron ore data proves it,\u201d Palekar asserted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The AAP President accused both Congress and BJP of betraying the people of Goa and said that the current Congress leadership has become a tool to keep the BJP in power. Palekar added, \u201cThe BJP fears the rise of AAP because we are the only party that can defeat them on the ground. That\u2019s why BJP has jailed our national leaders \u2014 Arvind Kejriwal, Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia, and Sanjay Singh. Their fear is proof of our growing strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Reiterating AAP\u2019s call for political change, Palekar appealed to Goans: \u201cPeople of Goa have lost their voice under this corrupt regime. Give AAP one chance in 2027, and we will send the BJP home and restore honest governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>No Alliance with Congress \u2013 Valmiki Naik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Speaking at the same press conference, AAP National Spokesperson Valmiki Naik declared that AAP will not enter into any alliance with the Congress Party in the upcoming 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cSince 1999, except for 2012, the BJP has formed its government in Goa with Congress\u2019s indirect support. Even today, two-thirds of BJP\u2019s 33 MLAs are originally from Congress. This shows that both parties are two sides of the same coin,\u201d Naik said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Naik challenged the Congress leadership to bring back its defected MLAs and form a government on its own if it truly opposed the BJP.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cCongress should stop pretending to fight the BJP while secretly helping them. Goa deserves an honest alternative \u2014 and AAP is that alternative,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Goa today exposed a deep nexus between Congress President Amit Patkar and Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant, alleging that Patkar has personally benefitted from iron ore transport permits sanctioned under the BJP government. Addressing a press conference in Panaji, AAP Goa President Amit Palekar revealed that official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":103838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-106306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106307,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106306\/revisions\/106307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}