Thousands of protestors gathered at the Church Square, Panjim on Thursday evening to demand sacking of Town and Country Planning Minister Vishwajit Rane.
In a letter addressed to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, the three main charges leveled against the Minister are bringing in Section 17 (2) whose rules and regulations have been struck down by the court under which 25 lakh square metres have been converted; using Section 39 (A) for sale of zones and corruption and conflict of interest in Bicholim’s Lodha project which is of Vishwajit Rane.
Activist Swapnesh Sherlekar read from the letter addressed to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, so that everyone present knew about reason behind the Protest.
The protestors were prevented from going to the official residence of the Chief Minister by a strong posse of policemen. They were stopped just at the start of the road to Altinho by police. The protestors persisted at the venue and stuck to their guns of meeting the chief minister till late evening, but were stopped by the police.
Thereafter they three of them including Claude Alvares, Swapnesh Sherlekar and one more person was allowed to go to the residence of the CM. They were told to sit, offered a glass of water and then told that that CM was not at the residence.
Swapnesh Sherlekar said the joke is on Goans, after a three member delegation went to meet CM at his residence and found that he was not there.
