Decision made two days before election
The state government of Goa, India has given a conditional renewal to the license of an offshore casino belonging to Golden Globe Hotels Private Ltd., reports the Times of India.
A subsidiary of former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda’s MDLR Group, Golden Globe had filed a petition for the renewal. On March 8, the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court gave the state government 24 hours to renew or reject the application. Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar approved the launch of Goa’s sixth casino.
Depending on election results, the ship may not sail for long. The ruling BJP party has said it opposes casino boats but could not ban them until the people determined which party would lead the government. Its rivals in the election, the Congress and Aam Aadmi parties, both have pledged to ban all the state’s casinos, land-based and offshore, if they win the election.
All six of Goa’s floating casinos are supposes to relocate off the Mandovi River by March 31.
