PANAJI
The State will have all eyes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he visits Hubballi on Thursday to launch the National Youth Festival in the city.
His visit comes at a time when the Goa government has locked horns with its counterpart in Karnataka over the Mhadei issue, and the Goa government’s delegation visited Delhi on the eve of the launch in poll-bound Karnataka.
CM Pramod Sawant earlier vowed to meet PM Modi to seek to revoke the DPR but it didn’t materialise. Sawant justified by saying that inter-state disputes are handled by the Home Ministry.
With Hubbali barely 160 km from Goa where the matter could be placed before the PM in the presence of its counterparts in Karnataka and around the project site, the Sawant-led delegation chose to cover a 2,000 km approx distance to raise the issue before Shah and Shekhawat.
