- “People think the Lokayukta is an investigative body only toinvestigate MLAs and former MLAs but it’s all the panchayats, municipalities,government servants and co-operations that will also come under the purview ofthe Lokayukta. If there are 5000 frivolous complaints, the entire system willchoked,”
- “I am ready to open dialogue with NGOs to lower the fineamount”
- “I will immediately hand over the employment scams in alldepartments and ministries besides all PWD scams done by Churchill Alemao. Alsomining scams will be given a priority to show the real culprits and prove CECwrong on its overall losses suffered by the state”
- “When my government fell in 2005, Mauvin Godinho,Pratapsingh Rane and Churchill Alemao urged the CBI to investigate the firstIFFI works in which I got a clean chit five years later. But for five years Iwas harassed, questioned and continuously called upon by the CBI. If there isno system to check frivolous complaints, similarly people will be harassedunder Lokayukta too”
- “Khashinath Shetye, Aires Rodrigues and others are misusingRTIs and PILs to block development or make false complaints. Public needs torespect the Lokayukta body which works in tandem with the police and otheradministration while headed by a Supreme Court judge and should be free offrivolous complaints”
