Panjim: Stating the State government has to be serious on the mining issue, Power Minister Nilesh Cabral Monday on Monday said that if the mining issue isn’t solved at the earliest the BJP will have to face the public wrath, especially in the mining areas.
The minister, speaking on sidelines of an event, said there was no difference of opinion that mining must start.
“The government is seized of the situation and knows that if this issue is not solved then the people living in that belt (mining belt) will not be with us,” he said.
“It is their decision to whom to vote. But we will try to campaign in those belts and change their opinion which might be against us. I will personally vote for BJP but I don’t know what will the rest of them do,” he said.
The people dependent on mining industry are hopeful that BJP National President Amit Shah during his visit to February 9 will make some announcement leading to the solving of the crisis.
Cabral said “I have internal feeling that before February 13, the process to resume mining will have to initiated.”
“If that does not happen now, then it will not happen in future. State government should be serious. We should find a solution so that people of Goa are benefitted,” he said.
