Panaji, March 16 -- Goa Congress leader Girish ChodanCongresskar has accused a senior minister in the Goa Govt led by the BJP of orchestrating a massive scam, alleging that crores in bribes were collected to manipulate land classification.

In a strongly worded post on social media platform X, Chodankar claimed that landowners paid over Rs1,000 per square meter to have their properties removed from private forest classifications.

He wrote, "Everyone knows the "rates"--Rs1000+ per sq. meter--to remove land from private forest & convert zones. Crores in bribes were collected, and now he must return the money! So, what does he do? He wants to waste taxpayers' money to challenge a ruling that protects Goa's land--just to safeguard his invest...