margao aap on tuesday hit out at art and culture minister govind gaude for his criticism of the charles correa foundation ccf and for his remarks that it cannot dictate terms to the government on issues concerning the kala academyaap requested gaude to take a delegation of artists and ccf members to witness the work the government has done in the premises if gaude fails to act within 10 days aap has warned of staging a protest in front of kala academy along with the artisteswe were not expecting such a statement from the minister who is also an artist the thengovernment renovated the black box in the kala academy premises eight to 10 years ago and it has since lost its beauty many artists consider kala academy to be a second home as a result we dont want to lose the kala academys beauty in the name of renovation aap saidin the midst of the pandemic gaude took on the renovation work at a cost of rs 50 crore as the elections approached without inviting tenders and that leads us to smell something fishy here aap vice president valmiki naik said aap vice president surel tilve dared gaude to first show what he has done as a minister for art and culture minister in the last five years he has been the president of pondas rajeev kala mandir for many years and has yet to fix the sound system there he said the kala academy belongs to kalakars artistes and art performers no kalakar will tolerate any sinister designs of the government pertaining to kala academy tilve said