Goa MLAs to pay for their trip to Brazil

June 13, 2014 11:21

All six Goa MLAs and ministers will go on a trip to Brazil at their own expense, says fisheries minister Avertano Furtado.

The BJP government in Goa stoked a controversy by sanctioning a Rs 90 lakh junket for six MLAs, including the sports minister, to Brazil, where the FIFA World Cup began on Thursday night.

It has been pegged as a "study tour." But the delegation did not include any experts in the field of sports.

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had defended the decision to send MLAs on the junket.

The Congress has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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