India, Feb. 25 -- Goa lawmaker Viresh Borkar has vowed to continue his hunger strike against the conversion of nearly 100,000 square metres of land on Panjim's outskirts from "green" to "settlement", even as chief minister Pramod Sawant offered to keep the orders for it in abeyance. He said the assurance does not address their demands to revoke the land conversion orders in his San Andre constituency.

Borkar insisted they want to end the strike with a proper result. "They could have issued a notification or circular, but nothing has been issued yet. The demand is for the revocation of the land conversion in San Andre and the scrapping of section 39A across Goa," he said, referring to the provision in the Town and Country Planning Act tha...