TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2024
Team Herald
CUNCOLIM: The Cuncolim Traders Association (CTA) on Saturday demanded resignation of Chairperson of Cuncolim Municipal Council Laxman Naik on account of his indifferent approach and utter failure in solving the various issues affecting the business community of Cuncolim.
Addressing a public meeting at taxi stand, here, the traders lamented that Laxman has been cold shouldering the business community of Cuncolim and at times making personal attacks directed at the office-bearers of CTA whenever they approached him with their grievances.
The frontal body for business people of Cuncolim had conveyed a public meeting to highlight the issue of rehabilitation of shop owners on the national highway and Cuncolim-Quepem road, which are likely to be demolished in the near future and who were promised shops in the newly constructed Cuncolim Commercial Building.
The promised rehabilitation in the new building has been thrown into cold storage with the civic body now proposing to auction the shops while there has been no mention of the rehabilitation of the 21 shops which are likely to face the axe.
Yatin Talaulikar, a Cuncolim businessman said that under no condition the CMC should go in for auction unless they give a categorical assurance that the existing shops will not be demolished in the next 20-25 years.
CTA office-bearer Talaulikar said that they have faced insults and personal comments directed towards their professions and hobbies by the chairperson.
He said that the chairperson had gave his name and Irineu Coutinho, secretary of CTA name to the police that they are likely to come to the council meeting and create trouble.
“We are law abiding citizens and till date have no complains registered against us in any police station and we had no intentions to disrupt the council meeting,” Talaulikar added.
He said, “There was an urgent need to replace the chairperson for his anti-people activities and behaviour and warned that people who have propped him up in the chair should be ready to face the consequences in the upcoming Assembly elections if he is not replaced.”
“We all know he is not acting on his own but is remote controlled by someone and it will be better he is replaced or otherwise the person remote controlling him should be ready to face the after effects at the upcoming elections,” Talaulikar said.
Two prominent Cuncolkars Dr Jorson Fernandes and former director of Directorate of Municipal Administration Elvis Gomes attended the meeting and assured their full support for the business community of Cuncolim.
