HUBALLI
Congress leaders along with workers on Tuesday staged demonstrations at South Western Railway headquarters in Huballi and submitted a memorandum to the General Manager demanding stoppage of the railway double tracking work from Vasco to Londa, which they said woyld destroy Identity of Goa and Environment and scrapping of the entire project immediately. GPCC president Girish Chodankar and Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat submitted a memorandum to the Additional General Manager of South Western Railway Prashant Kumar Mishra and brought it to his notice that there is complete opposition to the said work in Goa.
They also warned him that protests will grow if Railway Vikas Nigam does not take cognizance which may eventually lead to law and order problem in the State . Both the leaders demanded that the work of doubling of tracks must be stopped and the entire project must be scrapped.
Congress Party members on Tuesday reached Huballi in the morning and staged agitation infront of South Western Railway headquarters. Congress Functionaries Sankalp Amonkar, Amarnath Panjikar, Janardhan Bhandari, Joseph Dias, Vijay Bhike, Royla Fernandes, Denica Almeida, Damodar Shirodkar, Varad Mardolkar, Sachin Parab, Dashrath Mandrekar, Abhijit Deseai, Meghashyam Raut, Glen Cabral and others raised slogans holding placards.
