Team Herald
PANJIM: In a counter attack, Goa Forward Party (GFP) on Tuesday demanded an apology from State Congress president Girish Chodankar for misleading people and trying to create controversy over the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme.
Addressing media persons, GFP chief spokesperson Trajano D’Mello charged Chodankar with misleading people through false charges that Archives and Archaeology Minister Vijai Sardesai was aware of the State proposing 17 monuments for the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme.
“Whatever documents Chodankar produced failed to prove that my president and Minister for Archives and Archaeology was in the know of the scheme. He also failed to prove that the Minister had approved the proposal or noting the department had placed before the Chief Minister,” D’Mello stated.
D’Mello said that the newly-appointed Congress President even tried to mislead the people that under the scheme, the monuments would be taken over by the private party. “Chodankar should apologise to the people and assure them that he will not play politics of sensationalism to be in the news,” he said.
A day before taking over charge as GPCC president, Chodankar had announced to expose Sardesai and Tourism Minister Manohar Azgaonkar with the evidence that both were aware of the scheme and had proposed the sites. However, the documents revealed only the name of the Tourism Minister, who had signed the letter to the Union Tourism Ministry proposing the monuments.
