Mopa airport must go: Faleiro

Panjim: Minister for Industries, Luizinho Faleiro has put forth his views to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi about the airport controversy saying that “Mopa airport proposal should be shelved.”
Following his return from Delhi today, Faleiro addressed the press in Panjim where he said that he met the Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the Civil Aviation Minister, Defence Minister and the Finance Minister and appraised them of the airport controversy and given them his views in writing.
Faleiro said “I have categorically told the Congress President to drop Mopa and that the decision taken by the erstwhile NDA should be reversed.” Further in an attempt to clarify his stand on the airport controversy, Faleiro said “somehow there is an impression created that I am in favour of Mopa airport, which is wrong. For whatever short tenure I have been Chief Minister I have had five meetings and all these meetings were for the upgradation of the existing Dabolim airport.”
08/04/07 Herald Publications

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