They were clearly either employees or agents of Big Daddy casinos. They were confronted by two allegedly non-Goan women who, taking advantage of the fact that Babush faces a charge of molestation, filed a complaint that he and the mayor had tried to molest them. Babush, along with Uday Madkaikar, the mayor of Panjim, started demolishing the encroachments on the footpath. Our belief that Babush is the only MLA with the guts to confront big daddies like the casinos has been justified. Kanda also was unsuccessful at making it a going concern.

Leela had applied for and received an offshore gaming licence in 2006 but protests by local fishermen forced them to move out from the river Sal to the river Mandovi which led them to giving up the idea. Kanda’s foray into casinos here goes back to 2009 when he bought the Leela group’s Casino Rio for a reported amount of `30 crore. The reception area of Big Daddy has totally taken up the footpath close to the Adil Shah Palace which used to house the Secretariat. Big Daddy is the new avatar of the Maharaja and like a maharaja thinks it wants not only the Mandovi river but also all the footpaths in Panjim city. For some time Gopal Kanda was using the Zee Tv group Shubhash Chandra’s Maharaja - which did not get a license perhaps because they did not bribe the government.

Unlike other casino groups like Deltin, owned by Jaidev Modi, and the Pride Group, managed by Shrinivas Naik, Big Daddy was permitted to berth in the Mandovi river despite Parrikar’s repeated assurances that no more casinos would be permitted to berth in the River Mandovi during his election campaign.

Just in case you missed our last issue, Big Daddy is owned by Gopal Kumar Kanda, charged with multiple rape and unnatural offenses and abetment to suicide of one of his employees, Geetika Sharma.īig Daddy is the latest offshore casino to pollute the River Mandovi. The complicity of the BJP with the casino owners is dramatised with the fact that cases have been filed against Babush and Madkaikarįull marks to Pratima Coutinho, president of the Mahila Congress, who joined the battle against Big Daddy. Consistent with his promise of removing the casinos from the Mandovi river, he, along with the Mayor of Panjim, Uday Madkaikar, had the guts to remove the footpath encroachments of Big Daddy. CHALLENGED: Babush challenged the Big Daddy of casinos owned by alleged sexual molester Gopal Kanda of Haryana by removing the encroachments on the footpath near the Adil Shah Palaceīabush Monserrate has demonstrated that he is willing to deliver on his promises.

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