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Goa BJP has dropped Gandhi Jayanti from holiday list: Congress
Panaji, March 14
The BJP-led coalition
government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti from its list of official
holidays, the Congress claimed on Saturday.
Quoting the official
gazette listing "commercial and industrial" holidays for 2015, Congress
spokesperson Durgadas Kamat said the birthday of the Father of the
Nation had been dropped from the list. However,the list has other
holidays like Babasaheb Ambedkar's birth anniversary, Ganesh Chaturthi,
Independence Day etc.
"This clearly shows the hidden agenda of
the BJP government. This seems like it is just the beginning. Hope the
government does not have holidays on Nathuram Godse's birth anniversary
in the future," Kamat said.
"The holiday was consistent in the
past gazettes under the "commercial and industrial holiday"
classification, right until last year," Kamat added.