Goa Cheif Minister Laxmikant Parsekar addressing the Vijay Sankalp rally on Sunday night in Margao said, “See the impact of Rahul Gandhi’s presence in Goa. The first day, one of their legislators left the party.” He also added that mere presence of Congress Vice-President in Goa prompted many Congress leaders to quit the party.
Congress legislator Mauvin Godinho on December 17, quit NDA and joined UPA, which was the same day that Rahul Gandhi addressed Rally in Fatorda, Goa. On December 18, another Congress Minister quit NDA and joined MGP on Sunday. Referring to this, the CM said, “ the Second day, Congress’ former minister quit the party. Now let us see what is in store for the future and how many people are leaving.”
CM Laxmikant also said that, while Rahul requested a minimum of 50,000 followers at the rally, very few thousands turned up. For this, he commented “This is because (Narendra) Modi meeting had a crowd of one lakh (held in the run up for 2014 Lok Sabha polls.) But what we witnessed was that empty buses were arriving from different parts of the state for Gandhi’s rally.”
Rahul Gandhi, at the rally in Fatorda, Goa accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of working towards the benefit of one per cent of the super rich people and neglecting the 99 percent of the Honest citizens in India.
