NT Reporter
Margao
Congress on Friday held a protest in Margao demanding the resignation or sacking of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the cancellation of the NEET exam following the paper leak issue.
Congress leaders, including Youth Congress president Archit Naik, Goa in-charge Manikrao Thakare, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in-charge Girish Chodankar, South Goa MP Viriato Fernandes, Aldona MLA Carlos Ferreira, district presidents and party leaders, participated in the protest.
Shouting slogans, the protestors marched from the SGPDA grounds to the BJP district office, where an effigy of Pradhan was burnt.
“The BJP is making a game out of paper leaks and it is against the hard work that lakhs of students have put into the exam. Their futures are at risk today and when the students come to stand up for their future, the BJP government lathi-charges them,” said national Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib, who was also present and has been travelling across states raising the issue.
He said that youth and students have to fight and should continue their fight against corruption.“We will continue this fight for the demand to remove Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan or have him step down from his post,” said Chib.
The Prime Minister had assured two crore jobs to youth, where are these jobs, said GPCC president Amit Patkar.
“Goa is number one in unemployment. Pradhan has to resign from his post or the PM should sack him. We recently saw claims made of there being 22,000 jobs in Goa. These are promises before the elections,” he said.
South Goa MP Viriato Fernandes assured that he would raise the issue in Parliament, while MLA Carlos Ferreira said students have died by suicide over the paper leek issue and that the minister should have resigned on moral grounds.
