Fadnavis calls Cong a ‘part-time party’

Panaji: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday took a dig at the Congress, saying that it is now a “part-time” party which is slowly vanishing from the country, and added that the parties from Delhi and West Bengal have arrived in Goa ahead of the Assembly elections to carry out their experiments and to create division. He was referring to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), which have announced their decision to contest the upcoming polls in Goa.

Slamming the TMC and Banerjee, he said there is no democracy left in West Bengal and that the state is at the top in terms of unemployment and crime. Fadnavis, who is BJP’s election in-charge of Goa, was addressing people in Panaji after the induction of former Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte into the party fold. Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and BJP’s state unit chief Sadanand Shet Tanavade were also present. “People are here for experiment. They want to conduct experiment of their own (political) parties in Goa. But Goans are wise enough to understand all this. Goans know who will be with them and who will fly away after the election,” the former Maharashtra chief minister said. Fadnavis said that political parties from Delhi and Kolkata have come to Goa only to create division and play their own politics. “Congress has remained a part-time party in the country. Congress leaders are part-time, they don’t get into full-time politics and hence their party has also become a part-time party,” he said.