Goa's Director General of Police TN Mohan came in for fire from the Opposition, Congress, for his remarks on the status of the State's drug scene.
Addressing a Press conference Sunil Kauthankar, a Congress spokesman, said that the DGP was acting on behalf of the drug mafia.
"It is unfortunate that the Goa DGP is behaving like a spokesperson of the drug mafia in Goa. We condemn his statement. It is a slap on the face of those police officers and people who are fighting against the drug mafia in Goa," Kauthankar said.
The Congress demands his immediate recall now.
Mohan addressing his first Press conference as a DGP last month said: "There are drugs in Goa... It is still my opinion that Goa is not Mexico. Goa does not have a mafia or a lawlessness which is there is those places," Mohan said, adding that presence of drugs in Goa was "nominal".
Kauthankar said the comments came some months after a legislative committee report indicted both former home minister Ravi Naik and Mohan immediate predecessor DGP Kishen Kumar for their links to the drug mafia.