Goa Forward Party MLA apologises over protest in Goa Assembly visitors’ gallery

Porvorim: (Mar 10) Goa Forward Party (GFP) MLA Vijai Sardesai on Tuesday tendered an unconditional apology to the state assembly over a protest staged by a group of persons in the visitors’ gallery in the House as entry passes were issued to them by his office.

Four persons were arrested on March 6 after they protested inside the visitors’ gallery of the House against the proposed dam on the Zuari River in Mirabag village in Kushawati District.

The accused had entered the House using passes issued by Sardesai’s office, and Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar on Monday gave the GFP MLA a 24-hour deadline to tender an unconditional apology.