Casinos are now ‘fait accompli’ of Goa government.

This was stressed by former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar as he surprised lawmakers over his sudden major reversal of stand at the height of a legislative debate on the fate of casinos in the Indian state of Goa.

It would be recalled that Parrikar and his group, in the run up to the 2012 state assembly election, had opposed casinos in 2007. Parrikar’s group also promised to rid the Mandovi, one of the two main rivers in Goa that flows along Panaji, of the offshore casinos which are berthed in it.

But during his address to a group of core party workers in Panaji on Saturday, Parrikar pointed out that the casino industry cannot be disturbed as they are the “fait accompli” of the BJP-led state government. By definition of fait accompli, the government could no longer overturn the decision of the state government to grant six licenses to casinos