TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
PANJIM: Following the attack on BJP MLA Vishnu Wagh, people from all walks of life including professionals expressed serious concern over the law and order situation under the present dispensation in Goa and questioned if ruling MLAs are accosted and abused by a mob in such a brazen manner what would be the fate of the common man.
Speaker after speaker condemned the attack on Wagh Saturday and questioned the guts and daring of such political mobs to intimidate people and concluded that this is possible only with the support and probable help of powers that be.
An allegation about involvement of certain sections of the BJP in this has been vociferously voiced by certain quarters from Wagh’s family itself both at the police station in Mapusa and reportedly late Friday night at the hospital where in war of words was witnessed between family members and some workers of the BJP.
According to reports till late night there have been no more arrests except for one person on Friday – an action that brought some 100 supporters of BJP’s Tivim MLA including his wife onto the road outside the Mapusa police station.
Police reportedly told the media when asked why they were being allowed to gather there that they were on the road so they could not do anything – not having learned any lessons from the assault on the Panjim police station by supporters of another MLA in the not so distant past.
After the attack, the police had registered a complaint against 60-70 persons carrying deadly weapons including two panch members.
The MLA has lodged a formal complaint with Mapusa police station naming and accusing panchayat members Ladu Kubal and Chari and others including Yeshwant Chodankar, Prassad Sinari, Kamu Avadoot Halarnkar, Ritesh Warkhankar, Anand Volvoikar, Anand Temkar, Suraj Kambli of abusing him with filthy words, wrongfully restraining him and his driver Sunil Vaikant Naik while they were travelling in their Innova car.
The police have registered a case under sections 143, 147, 148, 341, 504, 506, 323, 307 r/w 149 of IPC and Sec-3 of PDPP Act.
VASCO REPORTER ADDS: Meanwhile, Goa Congress Committee Minority Department Chairman and GPCC General Secretary Saifulla Khan has also condemned the attack.
