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Goa
minister accuses BJP leaders of sheltering drug trade
Saturday January 29, 2011 08:19:04 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: Goa Home
Minister Ravi Naik Saturday insisted that his son Roy was not
involved in the drug trade and accused former chief minister
Manohar Parrikar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of sheltering
the drug mafia.
Addressing a press conference here ahead of the winter session of
the Goa legislative assembly, Naik also said that several BJP
legislators were "sheltering" those involved in the drug trade in
the state.
"There are many people named Roy in north Goa. I have enough
evidence to show that one Roy Fernandes was in the drugs business
with the blessings of then chief minister Manohar Parrikar and his
MLAs when the BJP was in power," Naik said.
The home minister, however, did not specifically identify Roy
Fernandes, neither did he respond to questions on why he had not
booked him, if he had evidence to prove the latter's involvement
in drug trade.
Lucky Farmhouse, a Swedish model and former girlfriend of an
Israeli drug dealer, as well as mother of slain UK teenager Fiona
Mackeown have both accused the home minister's son Roy Naik of
being a part of the drug mafia operating in Goa.
The opposition, several ruling legislators as well as civil
society groups have demanded a CBI probe into the
police-politician-drug mafia nexus in Goa in which they have
alleged the involvement of Naik's son.
While Naik claims that the opposition was raking up the issue to
gain publicity and because some of their party leaders had been
arrested by his ministry, he also said that the Congress
legislators who were crying hoarse about the drug trade in Goa
were "supporting drugs" by their actions.
"(The) BJP leaders are also frustrated over the action taken
against their local leader Sandeep Chimulkar in a drugs case. He
is in police custody since February 2010," he said, adding that
Chimulkar was involved in the drug trade along with a sitting
legislator.
Reacting to recent interviews given by two Congress legislators
Dayanand Narvekar (a former deputy chief minister) and Agnelo
Fernandes, who claimed that police in Goa worked in cahoots with
the drug mafia, Naik said: "Why don't they come forward and
complain? That means you are supporting drugs."
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