Panaji
On a day when a State Transport Corporation bus was torched in neighbouring Karnataka, the Goa BJP has announced that it has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking that he impress upon Karnataka to take strict action against the miscreants.
Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Panaji, state Bharatiya Janata Party president Vinay Tendulkar sent a subtle message to the people of Karnataka that their buses too could be under threat in Goa.
“BJP, Goa requests you to kindly prevail upon the state government in Karnataka to act strictly against the miscreants and ensure full safety and security to the Goan people in Karnataka and also to the Goa registered vehicles passing through Karnataka state,” Tendulkar said in his letter to Singh.
A State run Kadamba Transport Corporation bus was set ablaze in the wee hours of the morning at Hubli in Karnataka even as huge agitations against Goa’s opposition to Karnataka’s plans to dam the Mhadei river which flows into Goa have been going on for several weeks now. Tendulkar however said that Goa would not give a tit for tat and that Kannadigas living in Goa would be safe.
