More than three weeks after he was allegedly assaulted by at least seven people near Panaji, activist Rama Kankonkar Saturday alleged that he suspects the involvement of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte in the alleged attack. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant dismissed it as an attempt to “sensationalise and politicise the issue”.

After he was discharged from the Goa Medical College on Saturday, Kankonkar said the investigating officer did not question him regarding the involvement of any politician in the case, when his statement was recorded. “Yet, in my statement I have said that based on when the attacks began, I have some suspicions. If there is a mastermind, the police have to say so. If you are asking me if I have suspicions on who it might be, then I

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