Panaji, Jun 13 (UNI) Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Girish Chodankar on Thursday alleged that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant can warn a scooterist against polluting river but can't rein offshore casinos from dumping waste in River Mandovi.
Addressing a press conference at party state headquarters in the city, Mr Chodankar said,'The Chief Minister can warn a biker to not pollute a river with nirmalya (flowers offered to God), but has no stern words for the offshore casinos who are dumping sewage into the Mandovi river?. He can tell the poor not to pollute, but does not have the guts to tell the powerful casino lobby? He probably knew that randomly cautioning an ordinary person from dumping flowers could give him publicity."
The Congress State President was referring to a post on Twitter in which the Chief Minister had uploaded a video of him stopping a scooterist from throwing Nirmalaya (flowers offered to God) into a river.