Vote to protect village, say no to MLA-backed candidate: Cong | Goa News

Margao: The All India Professionals’ Congress (AIPC) Goa unit has appealed to voters for the village panchayat elections to “act as troopers and protect their respective villages” by rejecting candidates with none ideology and imaginative and prescient to develop their villages.
The AIPC nationwide conclave held at Raipur final week below the chairmanship of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, which was attended by AIPC members from Goa, advocated higher decentralisation of the method of governance in rural our bodies.
“Candidates propped up by MLAs and heavyweight politicians can have no allegiance of any form to serve the wants of the folks and can need to occupy the seats for self-advancement and to assist their political bosses. Hence, candidates with skilled backgrounds will make higher governance doable, as they’re much less possible to be subservient to the political class when it got here to problems with their villages,” Sidharth Karapurkar, vice chairperson, AIPC Goa, stated.
AIPC Goa chairman Elvis Gomes who led the Goa contingent within the 2 days of deliberations on the conclave stated that state governments had lots to be taught from the Bhupesh Bhagel-led Chhattisgarh authorities when it got here to boosting village economies. He stated that an open dialogue with Bhagel, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and others, coupled with web site visits had revealed that the Chhattisgarh authorities was “critically investing in folks by way of training, well being and boosting the agricultural sector economic system with farmers even discovering worth for dung picked up by way of govt schemes.” He stated that forest rights of tribals, each particular person as properly neighborhood, had been getting settled at a tempo unseen earlier than.
“We in Goa are dropping our ‘Ganvponn’ as our authorities pushes for reckless concretisation of villages by way of the TCP, PDAs and VPs. On the opposite hand, Chhattisgarh is seen placing cash within the palms of villagers to protect the surroundings. We in Goa have a authorities that formally permits promotion of playing by way of proliferation of casinos. These are contrasting kinds of governance we see within the nation,” Gomes stated.