MARGAO
Goa Forward Party President MLA Vijai Sardesai on Friday said the BJP government in Goa was busy conducting meetings to convert lands in the State and not how to better the situation during the ongoing pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 500 people.
Sardesai has questioned the priorities of the government, elaborating how the current list of cases of conversion of land which appeared in the local dailies as a public notification has been published with no proper details.
“The recent notification mentions only the survey number and the name of the village. With details such as the name of the applicant and area of the land parcel missing, questions are raised whether the government is hiding facts from the public,” he questioned.
The ex-TCP minister said the government is trying to cover up all its illegalities under the guise of the pandemic. He said that during his two-year stint as a minister he had approved only 30 applications, whereas the new minister has approved more than 1,000 applications for conversion in barely a year.
He also demanded that all the details of the land conversions be made public.
