TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the Assembly Tuesday that he had absolutely no hint about the attack on RTI activists at Margao, on March 2, when he made a statement in February about frustration boiling among mining dependents.
Several hundred people, connected to the mining industry, attempted to disrupt the meeting called by the Goa RTI Forum in Margao to discuss the Justice M B Shah report, which had exposed illegal mining.
The attack came incidentally hardly a few days after Parrikar had said that prolonged mining ban may result in suicides and violence triggered by frustration.
The written reply however mentioned that government was aware there could be a possibility of threat of violence at the spot. Replying to whether police action was taken, the chief minister replied in the negative.
“Since no any untoward incident took place, no action has been taken by the police….There is no assault,” the chief minister said.
