Panaji: Describing the de-notification of the Dabolim land as a "scam", former chief minister Wilfred de Souza has urged chief minister Manohar Parrikar to re-notify the land for acquisition and use it for parking as originally planned.
De Souza, who claimed that he took the initiative to notify the land for acquisition when he was tourism minister in the Pratapsing Rane government in 2006, said two MLAs of the Dabolim area were "bound to have benefited" from the scam with the blessings of former chief minister. "It does not smell of a scam, it stinks of a scam," said de Souza.
The former tourism minister recalled that when Parrikar took over as chief minister in his earlier term, he requested de Souza to be the deputy chairman of the state planning board because both "loved Goa very much and were ready to sacrifice for the state".
01/12/12 Times of India
