From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Jan 27: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Fransisco Micky Pacheco today said that the decision on his political career will entirely be dependent on masses.

“I will go by what masses want as far as my political career is concerned,” Pacheco said indirectly hinting at breaking up from NCP in near future. Pacheco is currently tipped to be minister in Digambar Kamat cabinet but is being held back by the group of Congress legislators.

Pacheco, former state tourism minister, said that Home ministry unleashed a propaganda against him and even got him jailed on false charges of murder. “But let me tell you, I will die without a charge of corruption. I have been with the people and will remain so,” he said.

The former minister was addressing a convention of NGOs under the banner `We The People’ who had gathered in Panaji to oppose the declining law and order situation in the state.

In a direct attack on chief minister Digambar Kamat, Pacheco said that one of his (Kamat’s) relative was involved in sex racket and hence was arrested by police during BJP government regime.

“Kamat ensured that the deputy superintendent of police who arrested his kin got dismissed from services within 24 hours,” he recalled. Pacheco said that Kamat, who rushed to help his relatives, has kept silence on the issue of custodial killing of Cypriano Fernandes. “Kamat should have arrested all the officers who were involved in killing Cypriano in jail,” he said.

Various other representatives of NGOs spoke on the occasion.