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VASCO: Refusing to reveal the Goa Forward Party stand on its support to the State government, if government decides to challenge the recent decision of High Court on shifting NGT Pune bench to Delhi before the Supreme Court, TCP Minister Vijay Sardesai on Friday said that he would reveal the Party only after Chief Minister revealed his stand.
He Added that the spirit of the High Court judgment on NGT cannot be ignored by anyone including government.
He was giving his reaction on the order of Bombay High Court, where the court struck down a Central government notification transferring the jurisdiction for Goa-related matters from the Pune Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to the Principal Bench at New Delhi.
“The Chief Minister has always been saying that going to Pune is a logistic disaster. He says that he is not getting good lawyer to represent the State and also has said that he was reviewing every aspect of the judgment. So let him review, let him take a stand on it and then I will take a stand on it,” he said.
“As the president of GF party I feel that NGT is a constitutional mechanism to protect the environment, if the environment is to be protected then certain mechanisms have to exist. It is agreed that sometimes it is misused and the government is mostly at the receiving end,” he said.
“We cannot disrespect the dissenting voice and we cannot say that those who oppose are not part of the system,” he said.
