MARGAO: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Churchill Alemao has said that he would be moving a private member’s resolution in the coming Assembly session to install a statue of Father of the Opinion Poll Dr Jack de Sequeira in the Assembly complex.
“Today we are sitting in the Assembly as MLAs only because of the success of the Opinion Poll which kept alive the Goan identity,” he said adding that since Dr Jack de Sequeira not only fought to have the Opinion Poll but also won it. He should be honoured with his statue in the Assembly complex.
“Goa’s first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar’s statue is there and I feel that the person who retained the Goan identity Dr Jack de Sequeira’s statue also ought to be there,” he said.
He recalled that earlier when Radharao was also an MLA, he had moved a similar resolution, but failed to get much support and hoped that this time around there will be more voices supporting him.
