Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said there is no Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the alleged Rs 35,000 crore mining scam. The chief minister, however, said it was mentioned in the ‘Shah Commission’ report.
“According to Supreme Court directions and as per Chartered accountants report, we are recovering the money. We have sent letters to recover Rs 131 crore, out of which we have recovered Rs 80 crore,” Sawant said, adding the recovery process is on.
Before the assembly election in February 2022, Girish Chodankar, former chief of Congress unit in Goa, had claimed that citing the PAC report, former (late) chief minister Manohar Parrikar had misled the people on the alleged Rs 35,000 crore mining scam, “which had never happened”.
He had then challenged the BJP government to make the PAC report available in public domain. “BJP had used this non-existent report to defame Congress and win elections,” Chodankar had said.
“After making allegations against Congress over the mining scam, BJP usurped the power twice. But it failed to investigate and recover the money. Now it is clear why it did not investigate the matter and recovered the money,” Chodankar had said.
On Tuesday, Congress MLA Yuri Alemao asked the similar question to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant whether the PAC report existed, to which the latter…
