Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, with whom Velingkar

has been at loggerheads over the government’s continuedsupport to English medium schools, declined to comment on thedevelopment in the saffron camp ahead of Assembly polls earlynext year. "For the last two days, I have been repeatedly saying Iwould not like to comment on it (RSS action). It is theirinternal matter," Parsekar said. He, however, said that "there cannot be a new prant inGoa". "In RSS, everything is decided by the centralleadership," he added. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena defended Velingkar, saying that hehas done no crime by demanding the promotion of regionallanguages, which was one of the election promises of the BJP. State Forest Minister and RSS swayamsewak RajendraArlekar said the developments pertaining to RSS, includingsacking of Velingkar, could be the fallout of"misunderstanding", even as he termed them as a "transitionalphase". PTI RPS GK ARS NM NSKSMN