Panaji:
Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has indirectly blamed the chief minister for teh Melauli episode.
In the letter to CM, Rane demanded that the project be scrapped as it was planned for development and not atrocities on people.
Content of the letter:
Sub – Request to scrap the IT project from Sattari taluka.
Dr Pramod Sawant,
Hon’ble Chief Minister
Government of Goa
Dear Dr Sawant
This is with reference to the IIT project that has been earmarked in my constituency in the Shel Melatih village, Sattari taluka.
I would like to start by thanking you for considering Sattari for this reputed educational institute. However I have been observing what is happening in my constituency and the political situation and situation on the ground among the people and their views about the IIT. The whole emotion has gone on a different tangent and people are becoming more aggressive.
People’s views are changing and all the other people who were originally in support of the IIT, are today against the project.
Further, I am very disheartened that I was not taken into confidence for the police action and I was never consulted nor was part of any meeting wherein deployment of police was planned in my constituency.
Today the situation is such that the law and order is in a very bad condition in pertaining to this IIT project. I definitely as a representative of my constituency would not like law and police to be used against my people.
I appeal to you that you can shift this project to any other place other than Sattari and Usgao, Since, I as the representative of my people will not be in a position to support this project anymore.
I have spoken to my people from different villages and we have come to a consensus that this project should be shifted out of Sattari. I am grateful to you for having selected Sattari as a place for the IIT. We initiated the project thinking that this will bring in a lot of development and bring in a lot of vibrancy in Sattari and make it an education huh, which was the vision & plan.
The plan was never to use police or manhandling
It’s my appeal to the Hon’ble Chief Minister to please consider this request with all humility and as a member of a cabinet appeal to you to please scrap the project of the IT in my constituency I need to side with the people ultimately I am the representative elected by them. In the recently held Zilla Parishad elections they reposed full faith in the party with win of four candidates
I once again request you to please scrap this project with immediate effect and make an announcement. I have already made a statement saying that I will appeal to you and I am writing to you to scrap the project to IIT. As long as blood flows through my body, every drop of blood will be used for the development of Sattari & Usgao, do employment generation of the youth of Sattari & Ungao and women empowerment of the women in Sattari & Usgao.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Vishwajit Rane