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Goa CM perpetrated misdemeanour by nominating Godinho: TN Min
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SME Times News Bureau | 31 May, 2021
Mocking Goa Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho, his counterpart in the
GST Council, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P.T.R. Palanivel Thiagarajan
said that Goa Chief Minister had perpetrated a misdemeanour on Goas
citizens, and the GST Council, by nominating Godinho to represent Goa.
"I
also charge the CM of Goa with perpetrating a misdemeanour on Goa's
citizens, and the GST Council, by nominating him (Godinho) to represent
your beautiful State," Tamil Nadu FM said in a statement on Sunday while
rejecting Godinho's charge that he should apologise to the people of
Goa.
He added further that the BJP should exercise minimal quality control in its MLA Acquisition procedures.
"Finally,
I sincerely request the BJP, even across the political divide, to
impose some minimal quality control on its ‘MLA Acquisition' procedures.
If it had done so, Goa, and the nation would be saved a lot of pain,"
Thiagarajan added.
He said Godinho's statements at the meeting
"were highly repetitive, largely vacuous, hectoring, mostly redundant to
others' inputs, supercilious, and with inputs from the Minister from
Uttar Pradesh".
Thiagarajan said there was no need for him to apologise to the people of Goa.
Thiagarajan
stuck to his position that "One State-One Vote" mode of the GST Council
was fundamentally unfair and he always believed in a truly federal
governance model. "Every statement I made during the entire meeting was
entirely consistent with these two principles," he said.
Godinho
on Saturday had demanded an apology from Tamil Nadu Finance Minister
for insulting small states, Goa in particular, during the 43rd GST
meeting chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday.
Addressing
a press conference, Godinho, who represents the Goa government at GST
Council meetings, said that the TN Finance Minister's alleged comments
dismissing the stature of small states in the Indian Union were
condemnable, a day after Godinho and Palanivel Thiagarajan clashed with
each other.
"The Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu should
apologise. What is he trying to tell me? That he is against the
Constitution of the country? Does he not believe in the Constitution of
India? Does he not believe in equality before law? Does he not believe
that whatever your status, whatever your standing in society, whether
your constituency comprises of lakhs of voters or a few thousand voters,
everybody has got one vote," Godinho said.
"I want to remind
the new Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu Palanivel, refrain from
conducting yourself in a manner as a big brother versus small brother or
big state versus small state. We all have equal rights. His attitude
should be condemned by one and all right-thinking people. He should not
target Goa," Godinho said.
The Goa Minister said that during the
meeting, Palanivel allegedly said that more attention should be paid to
the sentiments of bigger states, rather than smaller states like Goa.
"I
took offence at yesterday's meeting because he said 'what is Goa, it is
a small thing, it is a small population. You should listen to me', he
was trying to tell the Union Finance Minister," Godinho said, recounting
the incident at the GST Council meeting on Friday.
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