Goa Assembly Speaker offers to resign

Anchor: Ramesh Tawadkar has expressed his frustration over what he perceives as unfair attacks on his position. Tawadkar has offered to resign from his post complaining that the ministers in the state cabinet, and the Chief Minister, failed to show the necessary respect for his role.

" I had set out with the aim of working 365 days a year. The justice I have done to the post is known to the entire people of Goa. That is my pride ," Tawadkar said.

" If the ministers or the Chief Minister is unable to respect the position of the Speaker, to safeguard the respect, I am ready to resign," Goa Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar told media.