PANJIM, Aug. 27 -- Team Herald

Goa's Opposition parties have launched a scathing attack on the BJP government, demanding that it appeal against the acquittal of Panchayats Minister Mauvin Godinho and others in the alleged 1998 power rebate scam - a case originally pursued by the BJP under late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar when Godinho was in the Opposition.

Leader of the Opposition Yuri Alemao said the Sawant government cannot remain silent.

"The BJP government has previously defied the High Court's order declaring the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary and its surrounding areas as a Tiger Reserve and challenged it in the Supreme Court. Numerous other court orders have been challenged in the Apex Court in the past," Alemao said.

"Now too, t...