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Daijiworld Media Network - Goa

Goa, Dec 15: Congress party has said union defence minister Manohar Parrikar's birthday celebrations was "desperate attempt by bjP to reinstate their lost glory."

"It clearly shows a desperate attempt of state BJP to reinstate the lost glory of their government and moreover to rebuild the loss of confidence amongst Goans in their leader Parrikar keeping in view 2017 assembly elections,” congress goa spokesman Sunil Kawathankar told reporters here.

Parrikar celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday amidst fan following.

Kawathankar said it was sad that despite several requests BJP and Parrikar went ahead with the celebrations notwithstanding Chennai flood tragedy.

"There was huge expenditure incurred for this celebration. 50,000 people were collected to be part of the crowd," he said.

The Congress leader said BJP has to rebuild its lost glory in the state.

"Due to various U-turns and unfulfilled promises like shifting of casinos, scrapping of regional plan, medium of instruction etc, people have lost faith in the BJP government and moreover on Parrikar, who had made these false promises during last assembly election," he added.

"The entire move was to rebuild the confidence that people have lost,” Kawathankar commented.