Panaji: A day after a senior Karnataka minister issued a threat against several thousand Goan IT professionals living in Bengaluru, the Goa BJP on Friday replied in equal measure, saying that Goa, too, hosted many Kannadigas who were working in the government and private sector.

The comments were made by Bharatiya Janata Party's Goa spokesperson Damodar Naik after the alleged inflammatory speeches made by Karnataka's Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande over demolition of illegal shanties in the Baina area in south Goa.