Six legislators from Goa, including one ruling MlA have not filed their statements of assets and liabilities before the Goa lokayukta and failure to do so, will result in their names published in local newspapers and a complaint made to the State Governor, a statement issued by the Goa Government’s Information and Publicity department said on Wednesday.
The five legislators, who have not complied with the annual mandatory filing of assets and liabilities with the Goa lokayukta are Vishnu Wagh (BJP), Chandrakant Kavlekar (Congress), Jennifer Monserrate (Congress) Atanasio Monserrate (Congress-unattached), Benjamin Silva (Independent) and Francisco Pacheco (Goa Vikas Party).
“On non – compliance of the above requirements, the lokayukta shall publish or cause to be published the names of such public functionaries in two newspaper having wide circulation in the State with a report to the Governor, as mandated under sub-section (2) of Section 21 of Goa lokayukta Act, 2011,” the statement said.
The statement said, that the Goa lokayukta had publicly requested all legislators to submit the statements on numerous occasions in the past.
“However, despite publishing a press note to this effect in two local daily newspapers by Institution of Goa lokayukta some of the public functionaries had not submitted their statements within the stipulated time. Consequent upon the failure to submit the statements by the concerned public functionaries,” the Government hand-out also said. All public functionaries in Goa were required to file their statements of assets and liabilities for the financial year ending March 31, 2016 before June 30, 2016 in a prescribed format.