MARGAO: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar snapped at Chandor villagers for demonstrating with banners and not having patience or faith in him.
“We have told you that we will take everybody into confidence and solve the matter,” he said, while asserting that there was no need to resort to theatrics by holding demonstrations.
“This is nothing but an attempt to show off,” he quipped, when a villager said they were only displaying some banners showing the heritage structures in the village.
The chief minister said he had asked some villagers, who had raised the matter with him to meet him privately and added that there was absolutely no need to have demonstrations.
However, he accepted a representation from the villagers and said he would look into their demand.
Around 35 villagers from Chandor, Cavorim and Guirdolim had gathered at Ravindra Bhawan on Monday with banners showing the heritage houses in their village and regional plans of villages to demonstrate that the State Highway 8 was never shown to be passing through the village of Chandor.
Former Guirdolim Sarpanch and Convener of the villagers’ group Agostinho Antao said they were merely showing the maps to prove that the State Highway 8 was never shown passing through Chandor, but was passing through Davorlim, Sao Jose de Areal, Paroda, Quepem, Tilamol and then to Curchorem.
“Chief Town Planner Dr S K Puttaraju has told a lie and he has to be punished for the same,” he said referring to the letter written by the Chief Town Planner stating that SH 8 was shown passing through the village of Chandor in regional plans of 2001 and the 2021.
Co-convener of the village group Domnick Mendes said they believed that the chief minister would stand by the people and not let the heritage houses and monuments in the village to be destroyed by wide roads and heavy traffic plying on them.
