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PM likely to meet Goa delegation over mining resumption
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SME Times News Bureau | 06 Feb, 2019
A year after the Supreme Court banned mining in the coastal state, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet a delegation of mining
dependents from Goa along with the party's local MPs and ruling MLAs
from the state's mining belt in the national capital on February 6, in a
bid to restart mining.
The Congress has claimed that the meeting
was nothing but another platform for a 'jumla' by Modi ahead of the
upcoming Lok Sabha elections, as a means to placate the politically
crucial mining belt, which accounts for more than half a dozen assembly
segments.
A BJP MP, requesting anonymity told IANS that while the
Prime Minister's Office had confirmed an audience with Modi, the exact
time has not been conveyed yet.
"The PMO has assured that Modi ji
will meet the Goa delegation, but we have not been informed of an exact
time yet," said the BJP MP.
The delegation is expected to
include Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik, South Goa MP
Narendra Savoikar, state BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Vinay
Tendulkar, ruling legislators and president of the Goa Mining People's
Front Puti Gaonkar.
The development comes two days after the
Front published advertisements in leading media platforms, claiming that
the the mining ban had driven hundreds of thousands of people in Goa
dependent on the mining industry to economic hardship.
Reacting
to the development, state Congress president Girish Chodankar said that
not much could be hoped from the BJP-led Central and state government,
which had not taken measures to restart mining for nearly a year after
it was banned.
"I can sum up what will happen at the meeting with one word. It will be another jumla," Chodankar said.
The
mining ban issue has been hanging fire in Goa, ever since the apex
court banned extraction and transportation of iron ore from 88 mining
leases from February last year, while also directing the state
government to re-issue mining leases.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi during a video interaction with with party workers in Goa last
month had assured that the Central government was looking for a
"judicial solution" to the mining impasse.
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