Goa, Nov. 12 -- JOSE MARIA MIRANDA

This is not a question that I pose; it's an accusation I dare make. BJP's Mani festo in 2012 promised Special Status for the State. In January 2014, Narendra Modi himself, while being chosen to lead BJP as PM, promised it, in Goa, ex pressing happiness and com mending Goans for asking for Special Status to maintain their identity and not to derive eco nomic benefits, as is generally the case. Thereafter, Goa Legislative Assembly passed a unanimous resolution demanding Special Status and placed it before the PM. The then CM Parrikar too strongly advocated it. But, it was flatly denied. Goa had every right to a status higher than any other State or J & K, for Goa was conquered, by whatever name one may ca...