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Panaji: Congress on Monday said chief minister Pramod Sawant should ensure that all roads in the state are repaired by November 1 or put in public domain details of the expenditure on roads and highways in the last two years.
Congress said that if it forms the next government it will investigate the road and national highway contracts and initiate action against contractors whose work was substandard.
“There is one highway contractor who is building small bridges, flyovers and highways. The deputy chief minister is complaining about this contractor, but the government is not taking any action against the contractor,” Congress spokesperson Mahadev Khandekar said.
Khandekar, who is from Sakhali constituency, said that if the roads are not repaired by November 1, then Congress will decide its next strategy to go ahead.
“If the government changes and our government is there and if an investigation is conducted, this highway contractor will be put in jail. The chief minister said that by November 1 all the roads will be repaired. I urge the chief minister to ensure this or to release all information regarding the tenders and contracts for road repairs for the last two years,” he said.
Responding to Sawant’s claims that Goa’s economy and roads were equally bad during the term of the Congress government, Khandekar said that there was prosperity when Margao MLA Digambar Kamat was the chief minister of the state.
“When there was a Congress government, the state treasury was full, there were jobs, there was prosperity in the state. The industries functioned well, the roads were good. In the last nine years, the state’s debt has shot up. Where has the money gone?” the spokesperson said.
He said that BJP has thrown the entire state into economic despair.
Congress said that if it forms the next government it will investigate the road and national highway contracts and initiate action against contractors whose work was substandard.
“There is one highway contractor who is building small bridges, flyovers and highways. The deputy chief minister is complaining about this contractor, but the government is not taking any action against the contractor,” Congress spokesperson Mahadev Khandekar said.
Khandekar, who is from Sakhali constituency, said that if the roads are not repaired by November 1, then Congress will decide its next strategy to go ahead.
“If the government changes and our government is there and if an investigation is conducted, this highway contractor will be put in jail. The chief minister said that by November 1 all the roads will be repaired. I urge the chief minister to ensure this or to release all information regarding the tenders and contracts for road repairs for the last two years,” he said.
Responding to Sawant’s claims that Goa’s economy and roads were equally bad during the term of the Congress government, Khandekar said that there was prosperity when Margao MLA Digambar Kamat was the chief minister of the state.
“When there was a Congress government, the state treasury was full, there were jobs, there was prosperity in the state. The industries functioned well, the roads were good. In the last nine years, the state’s debt has shot up. Where has the money gone?” the spokesperson said.
He said that BJP has thrown the entire state into economic despair.
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