{"id":99179,"date":"2024-12-12T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=99179"},"modified":"2024-12-12T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:37:00","slug":"cms-sudden-statement-came-out-of-fear-of-aap-leader-sanjay-singh-raising-cash-for-job-scam-in-rajya-sabha-any-day-now-aap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=99179","title":{"rendered":"\u2018CM\u2019s sudden statement came out of fear of AAP leader Sanjay Singh raising Cash-For-Job scam in Rajya Sabha any day now : AAP\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders today welcomed Chief Minister Pramod Sawant threat to file a defamation suit against the party leaders, labeling it as yet another a desperate attempt to silence the opposition.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Addressing a press conference at the AAP office in Panaji on Thursday, AAP Working President Valmiki Naik, along with General Secretary (Campaign and Communication) Francis Coelho, and Youth Wing leaders Rohan Naik and Salman Khan, highlighted CM Sawant\u2019s fear of being exposed and his continuous attempts to deflect attention from the job scam deeply rooted in the BJP.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">AAP Working President Valmiki Naik stated, \u201cThe Chief Minister is scared because the job scam investigation goes deep within the BJP party and involves close associates of the CM. His defamation threat is a tactic to suppress voices demanding justice.\u201d Naik questioned the grounds for the defamation case, pointing out that AAP\u2019s statements merely echoed former Goa Governor Satyapal Malik, who accused the Goa government of corruption. &#8220;If Malik&#8217;s statements were not defamatory, why is CM Sawant targeting AAP?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Naik emphasised that this isn\u2019t the first time the CM has tried to suppress the issue of the job scam. He pointed out that a pattern of inaction and deflection has been evident since the scandal first came to light. He explained how the scam came to public attention with the arrest of Puja Naik. Notably, it later emerged that she had been at the CM\u2019s residence just a week before the arrest, yet no immediate action was taken by the CM. It was only after a victim filed a complaint that the police arrested her. Naik mocked the CM\u2019s claim that he directed the arrest, questioning why he waited a week before doing so.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Following the arrest, numerous complaints surfaced, revealing deeper links between the culprits and the BJP. Once names of party bearers emerged, BJP leaders quickly distanced themselves from those implicated. Naik stated that the CM\u2019s statements about attaching the culprits\u2019 properties were a thinly veiled threat to silence them and prevent them from naming higher-ups in the BJP. He further criticised BJP Minister Babush Monseratte\u2019s suggestion to file FIRs against victims who had attempted to pay bribes, describing it as an attempt to intimidate whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Naik further added that the CM\u2019s recent threat of a defamation suit against opposition leaders is yet another tactic to avoid holding a judicial enquiry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Francis Coelho criticised the CM for wasting time on a defamation suit instead of addressing Goa\u2019s unemployment crisis. \u201cAAP has faced CBI, ED, and countless intimidations before. We are not scared. Instead of filing a case, CM should focus on creating jobs and finding the true culprits behind the scam,\u201d said Coelho. He further pointed to the state\u2019s dire unemployment situation, citing 9,000 applicants for 143 low-paying Home Guard posts as evidence of desperation among youth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">AAP State Youth Wing President Rohan Naik dismissed BJP\u2019s accusations of dirty politics. &#8220;It is BJP, not AAP, playing dirty politics by shielding corrupt leaders and making them ministers,&#8221; he said. AAP State Youth Wing Vice President Salman Khan said, &#8220;From Bhagat Singh to Mahatma Gandhi, leaders were jailed to suppress justice. BJP is doing the same to harass AAP leaders, but we will not back down&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders today welcomed Chief Minister Pramod Sawant threat to file a defamation suit against the party leaders, labeling it as yet another a desperate attempt to silence the opposition.\u00a0 Addressing a press conference at the AAP office in Panaji on Thursday, AAP Working President Valmiki Naik, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":99180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-99179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99179","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=99179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99181,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99179\/revisions\/99181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}