The Goa Congress on Tuesday filed a complained with the Election Commission (EC) against state's Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai over his comments on "weaponising" the youth. The complainant Vivek D'Silva, who is North Goa district's Youth Congress president, has said that Sardesai's remark was "an indirect attempt to threaten voters" in the run-up to bypolls in Goa. D'Silva further claimed that Sardesai's comments were "against the state" and demanded that he be booked for sedition. And if our government has made a mistake then the Goa Forward youth, we will back them fully. It should be noted that Sardesai's party is a member of the BJP-led coalition government, but Goa Forward is not contesting the upcoming Panaji Assembly bypoll.

Source: dna May 14, 2019 16:30 UTC