Pramod Sawant Eliminating Manohar Parrikar's Legacy: Sacked Goa Deputy CM

Pramod Sawant Eliminating Manohar Parrikar's Legacy: Sacked Goa Deputy CM

Panaji: Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai on Saturday said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant was trying to wipe out former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's legacy, just as Nikita Khrushchev tried to wipe out his predecessor Stalin's legacy in the USSR after the latter's death. Sardesai's comments came minutes after he was sacked from the Pramod Sawant cabinet, along with three other ministers.

Sardesai also said no central BJP leader had the "moral authority and ethical vision" to ask him to resign from the government. Sardesai and the three other ministers had refused to resign from the cabinet despite Sawant's request on Friday and were unceremoniously sacked on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of party workers at the proposed site of Parrikar's 'samadhi', Sardesai also announced the withdrawal of support of his three MLAs to the BJP-led coalition government.

He said that Parrikar had died twice, once physically on March 17 and again on July 13, when the four alliance ministers — including one Independent legislator — were dropped from the cabinet. (IANS)

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