“Jungle Raj In Goa”: Congress Leaders Detained After Midnight Protest
The leaders have been detained and brought to a police station in Panaji.
Panaji:
A number of Goa Congress leaders, together with the pradesh committee vice chairman, have been detained Friday night time once they protested within the foyer of a lodge hard they be allowed to satisfy Union Surroundings Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Mr Javadekar is in Goa to wait a chain of conferences at the new farm expenses Saturday. The Congress leaders reached the lodge round nighttime and demanded to satisfy the Union minister over the Mahadayi river water dispute with Karnataka.
When the lodge control refused them permission, they sat on a protest within the foyer. Later, the leaders have been detained and brought to a police station in Panaji.
The leaders incorporated Goa Pradesh Early life Congress Committee President Varad Mardolkar, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Vice President Sankalp Amonkar, office-bearer Janardhan Bhandari.
Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar tweeted, “JUNGLE RAJ in Goa — @INCGoa delegation led by means of Vice President @SankalpAmonkar, @JanaBhandariGoa @Varadmardolkar @AdvArchitNaik @RautMeghashyam @SudinNaikGoa & 10 others arrested by means of @DGP_Goa for in the hunt for appointment with @PrakashJavdekar & ready to satisfy him in lodge foyer in Panjim.”
Jungle Raj in Goa. Arrested for in the hunt for Union Ministers appointment @INCIndia@INCGoapic.twitter.com/3ugTv1PVc7
— Girish Chodankar (@girishgoa) October 2, 2020
Mr Mardolkar mentioned the Congress delegation sought after to satisfy Javadekar to query him at the Central executive’s “silence” over Mahadayi river water diversion by means of Karnataka.
“Javadekar has failed the State of Goa so far as passion of Mahadayi is anxious,” he mentioned, claiming that the Union minister used to be additionally accountable for granting permissions for a number of environmentally hazardous tasks, which have been being adversarial by means of other folks.
Responding to the incident, BJP Goa spokesperson Dattaprasad Naik tweeted, “Simplest CHORS (thieves) and dacoits do such issues in the dead of night @INCGoa impressed by means of their nationwide chief who used to be enjoying to the gallery at Hathras the day past. @BJP4Goa strongly condemns such act by means of @INCGoa staff.
