MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar said it would be a fitting tribute to former CM Bandodkar, who shaped the future of the state after the state’s liberation from Portuguese rule in 1961.
MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar said it would be a fitting tribute to former CM Bandodkar, who shaped the future of the state after the state’s liberation from Portuguese rule in 1961.
MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar said the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) has passed a resolution to name the upcoming Mopa airport in Goa after the state’s first chief minister, the late Dayanand Bandodkar.
Goa’s oldest regional party MGP has two MLAs in the 40-member state assembly and is currently supporting the Pramod Sawant-led government.
Despite the Mopa airport in Goa becoming operational next month, political leaders are at loggerheads over who should name the facility, but the state government has remained silent on the issue.
Mr Dhavalikar said that the Central Committee of MGP on November 6 passed a resolution to name the Mopa airport after Bandodkar and it would be sent to the state government for follow-up action.
He said it would be a fitting tribute to former Chief Minister Bandodkar, who had shaped the future of the state after the state’s liberation from Portuguese rule in 1961.
Notably, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Goa unit spokesperson Savio Rodrigues had recently said that the new airport should be named after the first Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly, Dr. Jacques Sequeira.
Mr. Rodrigues had said, “When some political leaders wanted to merge the state with Maharashtra, there could be no better tribute to the man who saved the identity of Goa.”
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had said on Friday that the airport at Mopa in North Goa would be commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after December 8 depending on the availability of his dates.