BJP leader lists private member resolution for Sequeira statue

Goa's Deputy Speaker and BJP leader, Michael Lobo, has submitted a private member resolution during the upcoming Assembly session demanding that a statue of Opinion Poll hero Dr Jack Sequeira be installed in the assembly complex.
Lobos move is contradictory to his partys stand which had opposed the installation of the statue and had passed a resolution on January 23 against it.
"We have received a private member resolution from Lobo which is up for consideration before the Speaker," sources in the Goa legislature told PTI.
The Goa Forward Party and the Congress have supported the demand for the statue in honour of Sequeira, who spearheaded the movement to keep Goa separate from Maharashtra during the historic 1967 Opinion Poll. He died in 1989.

Lobo was not available for comment but BJPs state general secretary Sadanand Tanawade said that the party would seek an explanation from Lobo.
"We know about this only through the media. We will seek an explanation from Lobo," Tanawade said, adding that it was for the Speaker to allow or disallow a private member resolution.
The ruling party maintained that the complex already had the statue of Goas first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar.