Fresh row over Mhadei: Oppn wants Goa CM’s resignation
By IANS| Updated: 1st February 2021 10:21 am IST
Panaji, Feb 1 : A fresh row has broken out in Goa over the Mhadei interstate water dispute, with the Opposition demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant over a remark made by a former state government counsel in the Supreme Court in 2019.
The row broke late on Sunday, after senior counsel Arvind Datar, who was holding brief for Goa in the Mhadei dispute case in the apex court, told a local news channel that in 2019 he had been directed by the Goa government to not object to Karnataka’s plea to the Supreme Court seeking directions to the central government to notify the award of the Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal.