Sahil Online news release

Panaji, May 7: DIG Uijwal Mishra is reported to denied the BJP propaganda that the Muslims gangs from Bhatkal and Karwar have come brandishing swords and threatening, says Sahil Online news release. 

Political analysts however attribute it to opposition BJP leader and Manohar Parikar of converting the Hindu-Muslim rift into a locals-immigrants issue in a bid to garner Catholic votes.

Chief minister Pratapsingh Rane visited the town and reviewed the arrangements made by the police, appealing for peace even as a Muslim delegation called on governor S C Jamir seeking his intervention to arrest the perpetrators of the violence.

Chief Minister, Pratapsing Rane said that there can be no restrictions on migrants coming to the State, because any Indian can go to any part of the country.

"Are you joking?" Rane asked reporters, when quizzed on whether the government would keep a tab on migrants entering the state. The CM was speaking to reporters at a press conference in the city on Sunday.

Rane was reacting to Leader of Opposition, Manohar Parrikar's statements on the need to keep a check on Muslim migrants who according to him (Parrikar) have been the cause of problems in the State.

Going a step further Rane said that Goans were dependent on migrant labour as they were unwilling to do certain menial jobs. This phenomenon was found all over the country, he said, and added that Goans too went to metropolitan cities for higher paying jobs.

Belying BJP's claim that people from Bhatkal were brought to Goa to support protests by minority community, Rane said, ?it is not true.? In fact, he said, they are just rumours and urged leaders of both communities, majority and minority,  to observe restraint, and not to incite the masses.