In a late night development, the Congress urged the Election Commission to book Goa Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai for sedition for urging youngsters to “weaponise” themselves to force the state government to fulfil their demands on norms for government jobs during a speech earlier this month.
In his complaint to the EC, Vivek D’Silva, North Goa District Youth President of the Congress has also said, that Sardesai’s comments made during the inauguration of his party Goa Forward’s office premises in Panaji, clearly showed “an intent to wage war against a government duly instituted under the Constitution, and also against the people of Goa”.
“The complainant states that the said act is also an indirect attempt to threaten voters in Panaji which is going for polls on May 19. The complainant states that the said words have been made by Vijai Sardesai with intent to excite dissatisfaction and to create hatred amongst the people of Goa against the government,” the complaint states.
On May 7, Sardesai had said that he would “weaponize” his party’s youth, if the BJP-led coalition government, which he and his party are a part of, did not reverse dilution of domicile norms for recruitment in state government as well as state-funded autonomous bodies like the Goa University.