PANAJI
A day after his unedited controversial audio clip went viral, Minister Govind Gaude refuted all the “allegations” and termed it as “false”.
A 4.14 minute audio clip of the telephonic conservation between the Minister and Director of Tribal Welfare Dashrath Redkar had gone viral on social media on Tuesday, wherein the Minister was heard yelling, abusing and threatening the officer with dire consequences.
Redkar has admitted that the voice heard in the audio clip is his but refused to speak anything further.
On the other hand, Gaude said “all allegations against me are false and there are no facts”. However, in their entire clip there are no allegations levied against him.
In the audio clip, the Minister is heard lashing out at Redkar, for granting funds to an NGO for organising events through Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribe Commission in his constituency “ Priol. The Minister has even abused the Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar and the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant in the entire clip. The Minister is even heard saying that he will see how the event takes place and how “that” NGO gets funds. He told the Director to inform Tawadkar and CM that he is not going to tolerate such things in his constituency.
