Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant visited Baraulia village here on Saturday with the region’s new MP and union minister Smriti Irani and said if Smriti wanted, he would work for the development of the village.
Baraulia is among the two villages in Amethi – Hariharpur being the other – that were adopted by Sawant’s predecessor late Manohar Parrikar when he had become a Rajya Sabha MP from UP soon after being named the country’s defence minister.
After Parrikar’s death, Surendra Singh, the ex-village head of Baraulia who had raised the demand for a statue in memory of Parrikar, was killed on May 25, two days after Smriti Irani’s win.
For Pramod, an Ayurvedic medical practitioner and lawmaker from Sanquelim assembly of Goa, visit to Baraulia would be more of an emotional trip. That’s because Baraulia was the first of the two villages that Parrikar had adopted in Amethi in 2015.