Four pro-CAA Cong leaders quit, three of them join BJP in Goa
   Date :03-Jan-2020

Four pro CAA Cong leaders
 
PANAJI :
 
FOUR Goa Congress leaders resigned from the party on Thursday to protest against its stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act and three of them later joined the BJP. Former Panaji Congress block committee president Prasad Amonkar, former block committee secretary Dinesh Kubal, former youth leader Shivraj Tarkar and North Goa minority cell chief Javed Sheikh quit the party in the morning, saying they were in favour of the amended citizenship law. Amonkar, Kubal and Tarkar later joined the BJP, ahead of the party Working President J P Nadda’s public awareness rally on the Citizenship Amendment Act here on Friday. The three were welcomed into the BJP by party MLA from Panaji Atansaio Monserratte.
 
Later, talking to reporters, Amonkar said they joined the BJP as they support the Citizenship Amendment Act and want to create awareness about it. “We resigned from the Congress because we oppose the wrong stand taken by it on the CAA and the National Register of Citizens. We found that the Congress was misguiding people, especially the minorities,” Amonkar alleged. The Congress should stop “misleading people and creating fear in the minds of minorities for political mileage,” he said. “We all were part of the Congress’ protest held last week against the CAA and NRC. But, we realised that the leaders, through their speeches, were trying to create fear in the minds of minorities. This is not right,” he said.