Porvorim (Goa): To avoid the religious structures getting desecrated, former chief minister Pratapsinh Rane has suggested that State government should not allow any more road side religious structures.

“Some elements are coming to Goa these days, install a stone and it becomes a religious structure,” Rane told the assembly today.

He was speaking on the amendment motion to the Governor’s speech moved by the opposition benches led by his party.

“Don’t allow more religious structures to be put up along the road side so that the incidents like desecration will not happen. We don’t want any more religious structures at the side of the road,” he added.

“We already have so many religious structures,” he said.

Rane said that more investigation should be conducted into the incidents of desecrations which were recently reported in the State. “He is not the only one involved. We need further investigation in this matter,” he claimed.

The former Chief minister was referring to the arrest of one Francis Pereira who has confessed of being involved in the series of desecrations over last 15 years.
Team TNV