Cong demands withdrawal of central scheme on monuments

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PANAJI

The Congress party has condemned ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme of the central government, which aims to corporatise some of country’s important monuments and structures, including those in Goa, and further demanded withdrawal of the scheme by the Centre.

“It may be noted that this decision of the central government is most high-handed and arbitrary, as the people of the state are completely in dark as regards this draconian move,” stated newly appointed president of the Goa Pradesh Congress Commitee Girish Chodankar.

Maintaining that the state government too has been reduced to non-existent entity by the central government in the process, Chodankar said that these heritage structures and monuments are of great importance to the state and such a move to corporatise them is completely anti-Goan.

“It is even more shocking that Minister for Archives and Archaeology of the state government himself while speaking for the government has feigned ignorance on this decision, which clearly reflects that

these allies of the government are irrelevant to the Bharatiya Janata Party,” Chodankar stated in a press release.

“The Congress party strongly opposes the move to corporatise our structures and monuments and demands that the central government forthwith drop and withdraw this draconian anti-Goan idea,” the press release demands, pointing out, “It’s clear now that Goa is for sale, and our ministers have become powerless and helpless as they watch sale of Goa.”