Locals and political leaders staged a protest in Old Goa on Sunday against Subhash Velingkar, former chief of RSS’s state unit, for his comment about St Francis Xavier, Goa’s patron saint.

Like-minded people gathered for the protest in the morning, and they presented a memorandum at the local police station, demanding that Velingkar be externed till the decennial exposition of St Francis Xavier is complete. The exposition of the relics of St Francis Xavier will be held between November 2024 and January 2025.