Activists of the Indian National Congress (INC) party. | Photo credit: AFP

The opposition Congress in Goa on Thursday (Nov 14, 2024) accused the state’s BJP government of selling jobs, and constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged cash-for-government jobs scam. demanded.

Addressing a press conference, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Amit Patkar alleged that those arrested in connection with the alleged irregularities are somehow related to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). .

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At least 18 people have been arrested in connection with various cases registered across the state in the cash-for-job scam. Several complaints have been filed, alleging that the accused demanded money for providing government jobs.

Mr. Patkar pointed out that in the recent past, the Congress had given a memorandum to Goa’s Director General of Police (DGP) Alok Kumar demanding that an SIT be formed and cases related to it be investigated. A special bench of the Bombay High Court should be constituted for the hearing. to the scam.

“After the scam came to light, the picture is now very clear that the BJP government is selling jobs during its last 12 years in power,” he said.

“If the government fails to form the SIT, the Congress will intensify its movement and take it to every doorstep,” warned the party leader.

Goa tops the list of states in terms of unemployment, he said, adding that traditional businesses have been killed under the BJP regime.

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Opposition leader Yuriy Alemav, who was also present at the press conference, asked how anyone in the state could trust the police department.

“Places are sold in lakhs, while ruling party MLAs are busy giving a clean chit to their own government,” he said.

The governance of the state has failed and every day some scam comes to light during the tenure of this government.

“CM Pramod Sawant has to come clean and answer because there are links pointing to all of them,” he said.

On Wednesday, the Congress demanded a white paper on post-2019 recruitments in Goa as well as a probe by a high-powered committee headed by a retired high court judge.

On Tuesday, the Ponda police in Goa arrested Shruti Prabhogaonkar, a woman activist of the saffron party, for cheating people on the pretext of providing government jobs.

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The cash “scam” for government jobs in the state came to light after six people were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes, after which CM Sawant asked people to come forward and expose the scam. File a complaint in case of

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Congress leader Alok Sharma said that it is our allegation that there has been a process scam in all the recruitments made after 2019 in which proper procedures were not followed. This Goa scam is exactly like Vyapam. All the people arrested in this Madhya Pradesh scam have pictures with BJP leaders. He claimed that the BJP was trying to cover up the issue while Vyapam-2 was going on in Goa.