margao goans for dabolim only gfdo has said it will oppose in court the environmental clearance ec to mopa international airport once it is granted gfdo convener fr eremito rebelo reiterated the groups contention that the mopa airport project is economically unviable and in fact a real estate scam the gfdo claim has now been substantiated with a recent report toi aug 22 about some of the eight new airports that were proposed alongside mopa and constructed in tourist hubs not seeing any aviation activity because of the lessthanprojected demand flaying the present bjp government rebelo said chief minister laxmikant parsekar appears to be trying to replicate pm modis muchhyped and now exposed gujarat model of development which promotes jobless growth for the benefit of a few selected crony capitalists thanks to this gujarat is now aflame in protests pareskar should learn from the mistakes of others and understand that goans will not allow goa to go the gujarat way remarking that goans understand that the mopa airport project is cm parsekars dream he further stated after all on april 18 2006 the mandrem mla parsekar as leader of the promopa airport lobby enforced a bandh by blocking the siolimchopdem bridge without even making any efforts to understand the dynamics feasibility environmental impact and sustainability of the project but is it right that goa should suffer the same fate as sri lankas second airport just to pander to the vanity and hard headedness of the mandrem mla who is now goas cm tnn