Yet another lawmaker has joined the opposition chorus for shutting down Goa's casino industry, with former Revenue Minister and Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte demanding a temporary shutdown of the casinos, in a letter to Goa Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.

"Any learned medical opinion will not favour concentration of people in the constrained and air conditioned spaces of a casino. Goa is a world tourist destination and our future planning should be made, taking into consideration the fact that the pandemic restrictions are our new normal," Khaunte said in his letter to Koshyari, adding that the state government should try and explore more viable tourism promotions which includes nature-linked tourism.