Margao: Moving away from the controversial mining issue, former PWD minister Churchill Alemao resurfaced on Tuesday in Margao to address mediapersons over the proposed Mopa airport issue.
He explained how the airport seeing the light of day would lead to a "great loss to the tourism industry" but denied raking up the issue in the backdrop of speculations that he has plans to contest the Lok Sabha (LS) election.
When it was pointed out that he had raised the airport issue when he was contesting on a Save Goa Front (SGF) party ticket and again in the run up to the Cortalim by-election, Alemao dismissed the connection between the two.
"Why am I bringing up this issue now? I have always brought up this issue and have been fighting it for so long. I felt that the issue had been forgotten lately and it was important to raise it again before it's too late," Alemao said, reacting angrily to charges that he could be viewed as being an opportunist.
07/11/12 Times of India
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He explained how the airport seeing the light of day would lead to a "great loss to the tourism industry" but denied raking up the issue in the backdrop of speculations that he has plans to contest the Lok Sabha (LS) election.
When it was pointed out that he had raised the airport issue when he was contesting on a Save Goa Front (SGF) party ticket and again in the run up to the Cortalim by-election, Alemao dismissed the connection between the two.
"Why am I bringing up this issue now? I have always brought up this issue and have been fighting it for so long. I felt that the issue had been forgotten lately and it was important to raise it again before it's too late," Alemao said, reacting angrily to charges that he could be viewed as being an opportunist.
07/11/12 Times of India
