18-jan-2013 ….Stating that the appointment of a lokayukta for goa was be done in the next few days The state mgp party member and pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar on Friday came in support of the chief minister Manohar Parrikar and said that though it might had taken some time to for the appointment of a lokayukta the state bjp- led coalition government would appoint a proper lokayukta for the state ….
After promising to institute a lokayukta in Goa 100 days after coming to power, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s government had been unable to appoint a retired judge to head the office of the public ombudsman even after 10 months.
Speaking to goanreproter pwd minister sudhin dhavlikar said that that his party was also of the opinion that a lokayukta had to be put in to place as soon as possible and were with the chief minister Manohar Parrikar for looking out for a proper person for same post …
Appointing a lokayukta in 100 days of coming to power was one of the promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election manifesto.
days back following a suggestion from a senior Supreme Court judge, Justice Raveendran an eminent jurist was approached to take over as Lokayukta of Goa, but he expressed his inability to do so.
But in the past few days the state government finally announced that government had finalized the candidate for the post of Goa Lokayukta, and had decided on Justice retd- B Sudershan Reddy, a retired Supreme Court judge, as the first Lokayukta of Goa.
Meanwhile advocate aires Rodrigues commenting over the issue said that since there were a number of complaints over the chief minister Manohar Parrikar, he felt chief minister government should not interfere in to the appointment of lokayukta in goa
