There are organized drug gangs everywhere: Wagh (oHeraldo)

BJP MLA accuses Tourism Minister of not responding to MLA’s demands of a crackdown on drugs

By TEAM HERALD | 25 Dec, 2014, 12:09AM IST

PANJIM: In a clear deviation from Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar’s positioning of the drug scene in Goa as an isolated hiccup restricted to tourists, St Andre MLA Vishnu Surya Wagh said, “Everyone is aware that there are organized drug racketeers operating. I can give information to the police about the illicit trade. Places like the empty malls along the beach belt,” he told media on Wednesday.

Training his guns on Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar, Wagh alleged that the minister has been taking his MLAs for granted and not responding when they have been claiming that drug trade is rampant.

He also targeted legislator Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco who headed the five-member House Committee of Goa Legislative Assembly to probe into the alleged police-politician drug mafia nexus in 2012. The report submitted last year had indicted some politicians and some senior police officers for their links with drug peddlers and shielding the drug-trade.

Wagh and Lobo had however not signed the final report arguing it was biased and incomplete.

Wagh further said that the government has not been disclosing the amount it has been collecting from EDM festivals as Entertainment tax.

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 GT, 27th December 2014