MARGAO
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Girish Chodankar has said the meeting of Chief Minister Pramod P Sawant with the mining dependent was yet another farce put up by him to bargain for more time to resume the activity.
The GPCC chief strongly demanded that the CM should give a final date for the resumption of legal mining in Goa without any further delay or declare his defective government cannot start it.
“The Chief Minister has been giving reasons, one after another, delaying the further resumption of mining activity. The meeting of Friday also remained inconclusive, as expected, because the government has no plan to restart mining,” he said.
Chodankar said the CM has conveniently forgotten his statement about his scheduled follow-up meeting with Union Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. None of the meetings happened even though it is going to be almost a month that CM had visited the national capital hurriedly and met the PM, he added.
Chodankar also pointed out that the state government has ignored the issue raised by truck operators who are asking for a better rate for the transportation of ore.
“Government should understand that resuming transportation without giving proper financial benefit to the truck owners serves no purpose. Give economic justice to locals by keeping out all BJP dalals involved in ore transportation,” demanded Chodankar.
