Panaji: As a part of nationwide initiative, a delegation of Congress leaders from Goa met Governor Satya Pal Malik submitting him memorandum to be sent to President of India demanding that Governor of Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra should not be subvert constitutional powers and allow assembly session.
The delegation comprised of Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Girish Chodankar, South Goa Member of Parliament Francis Sardinha and others.
In a memorandum submitted, Congress has said that Government of India led by Narendra Modi and the Ruling BJP, are actively engaged in toppling democratically elected Governments across our Great Nation instead of focusing on the pandemic, economic revival and tackling China.
Congress has said the BJP is using every nefarious means to engineer a shift of loyalty of democratically elected MLAs in Rajasthan, prompting them to resign so as to create a constitutional crisis in the State and to get the democratically elected Government toppled.
“Yet again, an unyielding sign of their greater agenda at play, that is bereft of any concern or sympathy for the welfare of the very People who have elected the Government of India to power,” the memorandum reads.
“Unfortunately, the Governor of Rajasthan has cited six reasons for his procrastination in calling an Assembly Session at the behest of the BJP Party ruling at the centre, which is nothing but a murder of democracy by the Governor of Rajasthan. Only after the 7th request of the Rajasthan cabinet and owing to Public outcry, the Governor has summoned Assembly on August 14, 2020, further giving BJP sufficient time for horse trading,” the memorandum added.
Congress has said that the BJP has already toppled the democratically elected state Governments in Manipur, Goa, Karnataka, MP and installed BJP Governments through backdoors, preposterously against the wishes and mandate of the People.
“We are aghast at the way democratically elected Governments are being brought down unconstitutionally. The silence of constitutional institutions vis-a-vis these developments is not only deafening, but most baffling in nature,” the leaders said.
“Excellency to immediately take cognizance of the illegal, undemocratic, untoward and unconstitutional actions of the BJP, under the aegis of the Central Government, in Rajasthan and other states, and to beseech you to discharge your Constitutional responsibility,” the memorandum reads.
