Likening Goa to “a garden” where defectors moved from one party to another under erstwhile Congress-led governments, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday claimed that it was only under the leaderships of the late Manohar Parrikar and current BJP Chief Minister Pramod Sawant that Goans had a stable and development-oriented government.
Mr. Gadkari was speaking during the release of the BJP’s manifesto for the Goa Assembly election. The saffron party has made 22 resolutions (to chime with its stated aim of winning 22-plus seats in the 2022 election) for Goa’s development.