margao reiterating his stance against the notified regional plan 2021 rp2021 benaulim mla francisco mickky pacheco urged upa chairperson sonia gandhi to pay heed to villagers demand to scrap the plan and said that rp2021 should be kept in abeyance for six months till all the mistakes are rectified addressing mediapersons in margao on saturday pacheco further branded the ruling congress party in goa as communal for allowing the rp2021 to have roads passing through the property of the church in several cases especially in south goa i have seen that in the regional plan thousands of houses and the property of churches and chapels in places like colva varca cavelossim navelim betalbatim benaulim and other such places stand to get affected said pacheco pacheco condemned the congress for such mistakes that were communal as it hurt the sentiment of the catholic community and was forcing the church to suffer pacheco further regretted toppling the bjpled government for such a congressparty that was committing such communal acts i know an instance where my neighbour wanted to repair his house and sent his plans for approval to the town and country planning department but they were declined on the basis that it was not in accordance with the regional plan 2021 and if that is the case what will be the fate of these churches and chapels when they want to carry repair workssaid the former tourism minister there are roads proposed over churches in some cases added pacheco pacheco further hit out at the government for having denotified land acquired by the government for the airport expansion and failing to pay attention to the cries of the people upa chairperson sonia gandhi should understand the difficulties and sentiments of the people and make a decision in favour of their peoples demand added pacheco pacheco further alleged that the builder and real estate lobby were the people behind the manipulation of the regional plan 2021