PORVORIM: An infuriated Margao MLA Digambar Kamat denied that he had made any statement that PWD would repair the house of Ex Home Guard Vimal Shirodkar in Shirvodem. When Vijai Sardesai pointed that it was published in the papers, Digambar alleged that newspapers publish anything.
“I am clarifying, I have not made any statement that PWD would repair the house. The newspapers publish anything. Many people are wanting to politicize the issue. Vimal Shirodkar is a home guard. I have felicitated her four times. No one has to tell me what is her condition. We had arranged a philanthropist who said he will reconstruct the house,” an animated Digambar told the house.
However Savio Coutinho, reiterated that Digambar had blocked the local initiative to rebuild the house and had sent the Mamlatdar and Deputy collector who said PWD will do the rebuilding work.
Savio Coutinho said, “Now he is saying a well wisher is doing the repairs. Whereas there mamlatdar, deputy collector, talathi had gone there and blocked the work that we were doing through people’s initiative, by saying PWD will do the work. He said the collector may have prevented the work since a second wall was precarious. But how are they doing the work now when the wall is still precarious. Lastly the quality of work is questionable.”
Herald TV had highlighted how politics were delaying repair of Vimal’s house.