Daijiworld Media Network – Panaji (VM)

Panaji, Jan 25: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), an alliance partner in the Congress-led government has alleged that Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane is going against the will of the public by his obstinacy in refusing to denotify the Regional Plan 2011 (RP2011) with retrospective effect, despite overwhelming public demand.

NCP’s critical stand on the Regional Plan 2011 issue attains significance as the Party has been supporting the government and both its legislators are ministers in the Rane cabinet.

“While on one hand, Rane says that the RP2011 would be denotified due to public demand, but on the other hand he has refused to heed to the denotification in retrospective effect, evidently because it would adversely hit those close to him”, NCP’s Goa unit spokesman and general secretary Surendra Furtado in a press note released here, has alleged.

He said it is a shame that the Congress continues to steadfastly cling to safeguarding the interests of a few of its party members
 
The NCP leader charged Congress of provoking people to agitate by not listening to their voice. “We (NCP) remain firm behind people who demand denotification of regional plan 2011 with retrospective effect,” the press note adds.