Panaji (Goa): A day after Shiv Sena sought an apology from State Panchayat minister Mauvin Godinho for his reported statement against panchayat secretaries, the minister today said that he had not labeled all of them (secretaries) as corrupt.

Godinho’s statement that panchayat secretaries were responsible for teaching panch members to indulge into corrupt practice was protested by Shiv Sena who had sought apology from him.

“If everybody wants to paint everybody with same brush then it is up to them. I never painted everybody with same brush. I only said that some secretaries who are corrupt will face action. Again I am repeating the same” Godinho told reporters  in vasco town today.

“Everywhere there are black ships and we have to take action against them, otherwise what is the use,” the minister said clarifying his statement.

“Secretaries are government servant and they are not doing any favour. It is their duty to work for the people and those who are not doing their job properly and are only interested in making money then such people should be sent home,” he said. 

Shiv Sena’s Goa spokesman Rakhi Naik addressing a press conference had alleged that the panch members in different panchayats were indulged in corrupt practices putting the common people to hardship.