Rahul Gandhi to visit Goa Tuesday
January 17th, 2010 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 17 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who begins a two-day visit to Goa Tuesday, will be urged to back the case of the Youth Congress members who were brutally assaulted in December 2008 by a mob led by Atanasio Monserrate, who is now Goa’s education minister, state president of the youth wing Sankalp Amonkar said Sunday.
Asked about the issues the Youth Congress will take up with the Gandhi scion, he said the completion of the Rajiv Gandhi IT Habitat and the brutal assault on party members would top the priority list.
“We were attacked by Atanasio Monserrate (then a legislator) but there is no action against him despite repeated requests to the chief minister and the Goa congress president for an impartial police probe,” Amonkar said.
“We were staging a protest demanding that work on the Rajiv Gandhi IT Habitat be carried on unhindered when we were attacked by a mob led by Monserrate. (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi had conceived the project, which would have given a lot of jobs to the Goan youth,” Amonkar said.
According to a complaint filed at the Panaji police station, Monserrate, who was opposing the Rajiv Gandhi IT Habitat, had led a mob which attacked Youth Congress members in December 2008 while they were demanding that the IT project be completed.
Amonkar said Rahul Gandhi will also interact with the students of Goa university.
“He will also address members of the Pradesh Congress committee and Youth Congress representatives during his visit,” he said.
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