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MARGAO
Ahead of the hearing scheduled on December 10 before the Director of Municipal Administration (DMA) on the petition filed by the Congress and BJP-backed councillors over the Margao Municipal Council resolution on road naming, the ruling group of councillors has decided not to swear any affidavit before the DMA office on the issue.
The MMC legal counsel had on Saturday asked MMC Chairperson Pooja Naik and the ruling group of councillors to file their individual affidavits on the points raised by the 12 Opposition councillors to the resolution on road naming by Monday.
However, the ruling group of councillors headed by Chairperson Pooja has decided not to file any individual affidavits in support of the Council resolution, which is being challenged by the opposition Congress and BJP-backed groups.
It could not be ascertained why the 13-member ruling group of councillors have decided against filing their individual affidavits before the DMA before the hearing scheduled on December 10, when the DMA is expected to pronounce his order on the petition.
Sources in the know informed that the ruling group of councillors has decided to tread a cautious path over the advice given by the Municipal lawyer on filing of individual affidavits, apprehensive that the exercise might have been set in motion the 13 councillors who had voted in favour of Pooja Naik in the recently held election for the post of Municipal chairperson.
Meanwhile, all eyes are indeed focused on the office of the Director of Municipal Administration, Dr Tariq Thomas as any order suspending the Margao Municipal Council resolution on naming of road will decide the fate of the naming of the Fatorda road after former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on his birthday on December 13. Besides naming the Fatorda road after Manohar Parrikar, the MMC had also planned to name the Bolshe circle as St Joaquim circle and the Gogol circle as Floriano Vaz circle after the first martyr of the Konkani language agitation.
