PANJIM: The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) on Sunday unanimously passed a resolution urging the State government to name new Mopa international airport after Goa’s first Chief Minister late Dayanand Bandodkar.
The resolution was passed in the party’s central committee meeting held at its office, Panjim. The resolution proposed by MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar was unanimously adopted.
Dhavalikar said that the late Bandodkar popularly known as Bhausaheb was the party’s founder president and soon after liberation became the first Chief Minister and toiled for the welfare of the people without any discrimination. He said that late Bhausaheb was instrumental for empowering poor people by opening primary schools across the State and brought laws to help poor people and gave corruption-free government. He said there is demand from all sections of people to name the new Mopa international airport as Dayanand Bandodkar airport.
