Congress leaders stage midnight protest at Goa hotel to meet Javadekar, detained

Several Goa Congress leaders, together with the Pradesh Committee vp, had been detained on Friday night time after they protested within the foyer of a hotel demanding they be allowed to meet Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.Mr.

Mr. Javadekar is in Goa to attend a sequence of conferences on the brand new farm Bills on Saturday. The Congress leaders reached the hotel round midnight and demanded to meet the Union minister over the Mahadayi river water dispute with Karnataka.

When the hotel administration refused them permission, they sat on a protest within the foyer. Later, the leaders had been detained and brought to a police station in Panaji.

The leaders together with Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Committee President Varad Mardolkar, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Vice President Sankalp Amonkar, office-bearer Janardhan Bhandari.

Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar tweeted, JUNGLE RAJ in Goa — @INCGoa delegation led by Vice President @SankalpAmonkar, @JanaBhandariGoa @Varadmardolkar @AdvArchitNaik @RautMeghashyam @SudinNaikGoa & 10 others arrested by @DGP_Goa for looking for appointment with @PrakashJavdekar & ready to meet him in hotel foyer in Panjim.

Mr. Mardolkar stated the Congress delegation wished to meet Mr. Javadekar to query him on the Central authorities’s “silence” over Mahadayi river water diversion by Karnataka.

Mr. Javadekar has failed the State of Goa so far as curiosity of Mahadayi is worried, he stated, claiming that the Union minister was additionally chargeable for granting permissions for a number of environmentally hazardous tasks, which had been being opposed by folks.

Responding to the incident, BJP Goa spokesperson Dattaprasad Naik tweeted, Only CHORS (thieves) and dacoits do such issues at midnight @INCGoa impressed by their nationwide chief who was enjoying to the gallery at Hathras yesterday. @BJP4Goa strongly condemns such act by @INCGoa staff. PTI RPS ABH ABH ABH 10030110