Panaji, April 16 (). The Goa Congress has claimed that some of its leaders were detained ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the coastal state on Sunday.
Congress media cell president Amarnath Panjikar claimed that he was put under house arrest at his sister’s house, while the party’s state president Amit Patkar and other leaders were detained by the police ahead of Shah’s meeting in Ponda in south Goa on Sunday. took.
Panjikar, speaking to , said the police had been following him since morning and he was kept under house arrest at his sister’s house in Old Goa.
After going to my sister’s house in Old Goa, I was not allowed to go out, he claimed. The police put me under house arrest.
Mahila Congress president Bina Naik and other Congress leaders were detained by the police in Old Goa and Ponda, Panjikar said.
Significantly, during a rally in Karnataka’s Belagavi in January, Amit Shah had said, today I have come here to tell you that the BJP at the Center has resolved the long-standing dispute between Goa and Karnataka regarding Mhadei. And to quench the thirst of the farmers of many districts, Mahadei has been allowed to be diverted and brought to Karnataka.
Former AICC secretary Girish Chodankar had told that they are protesting at Ponda, a few kilometers from Amit Shah’s meeting place, demanding that Shah should clarify on the Mhadei issue. He said, many of our leaders were detained by the police.
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