Rubiya Shaikh -- Panaji, Goa
Daijiworld Media Network
 
Panaji, Sep 7: Utt Goenkara has today extended to September 9th the deadline given to  Atanasio Monserrate to prove his SSC or resign as Goa's Education Minister for having falsely filed an affidavit that he had passed S.S.C though he had not even completed 8th standard.

Utt Goenkara spokesman  Aires Rodrigues has stated that exactly 30 years ago on  7th September 1978, Monseratte had left St Theresa's High School at Bandra  while in Std 8th and did not complete his S.S.C as falsely claimed by him in the Affidavit before the Election Commission.
 
 Rodrigues has stated that the 2 day extension to Utt Goenkara's deadline was to enable Monseratte to realize how serious an act he had committed by fudging his own educational qualifications and to allow him to reflect on whether under the circumstances he had any moral authority to continue as Education Minister of Goa.
 
Rodrigues stated that Utt Goenkara activists would meet on September 10th at Panaji and finalise the plan of action to demand action against Monseratte if he fails to prove his SSC or resign as Education Minister.
 
Stating that Monseratte should realize that money cannot buy everything, Rodrigues has appealed to the Education Minister to come out clean and explain to the people of Goa as to why he had lied   about his educational qualifications.
 
 Rodrigues has stated that the Education Minister being a public official, his acts are open to public scrutiny and that Monseratte  should not dodge the issue at hand by saying "no comments" or "appropriate time".