Protest over Zuari dam project in Goa assembly; four detained

PANAJI: (Mar 6) Four people were detained on Friday after they staged a protest from the visitors’ gallery in the Goa assembly on the opening day of the budget session, over the proposed dam on the Zuari River.

The protest drew criticism from Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who called the disruption a “terrorist kind of attitude”.

The 17-day budget session of the state assembly began at 11.30 am, and soon after it commenced, four persons sitting in the visitors’ gallery shouted slogans and displayed placards.