Kanhaiya Kumar addressing a meeting of OBC/ST/SC organisation at Taxi Stand, Mapusa
Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday attacked Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for entering the fray for the 2022 Goa Assembly elections.
Addressing a Congress workers meeting in Mapusa, Kanhaiya said, "Congress joined hands with these two parties at the national level because they were anti-BJP, but in Goa, where Congress has the capability to defeat the BJP, they rushed to contest polls,"
He also targeted the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the security breach during Modi's Punjab visit.
"The BJP says prime minister does not belong to any one party, so why was he campaigning for the party. He is the PM of the country. The Home ministry is under his good friend. IF the security lapsed, call for an inquiry. The entire SPG is under you. Find out why they failed. He went to Pakistan and ate briyani that time he wasn't afraid, but in his own country he is afraid of his own people" Kumar asked.
He also said that the BJP accuses him of being anti-Hindu, but the fact remains that his name is `Kanhaiya'. "They call me anti-defence forces, I would like to tell them that 16 people from my family are in defence forces, I belong to a family which gets pension of freedom fighter," he said.
Commenting on Goa’s issue, Kumar said that “The government has closed down the mining industry in Goa due to which there is unemployment.”
Congress leaders including Goa observer in-charge of Congress P. Chidambaram, GPCC president Girish Chodankar, Amarnath Panajikar, Vijay Bhike, Sangeeta Parab, Sandesh Khorjuvekar, Youth Congress president Varad Mardolkar, and others were also present in the meeting.
