Aam Aadmi party today handed over a memorandum to the Minister and Director of Fisheries with copy to Benaulim Panchayat stating that local fishermen community of Benaulim is better suited to run the project. The memorandum signed among others by party convenor Elvis Gomes was handed over to the Sarpanch of Benaulim by AAP youth leader and ZP candidate Hanzel Fernandes. Likewise Party General Secretary Pradeep Padgaonkar along with Mario Cordeiro also met the Director of Fisheries and placed the party’s demands before her.
Pradeep Padgaonkar who handed over the memorandum to the Director of Fisheries said that someone in the government was taking advantage of the current situation arisen out of covid and trying to make money by handing over the project to a private partner. He said AAP will carefully watch the developments in the days to come as the government had lost trust of the people due to rampant corruption even during the pandemic.
Hanzel Fernandes informed that the party has reservations about handing over the project on PPP basis to any project proponent. He said that the people of Benaulim were capable of converting the project into a ‘world class facility’ as was desired by the government. He also said that people of Benaulim were the rightful stakeholders of the place and demanded that the Panchayat should adopt a resolution in support of the demands placed forth by the party.
