Condom ads featuring Bollywood actress and former pornstar Sunny Leone will be taken off display boards on state-run buses, Goa Transport Minister Sudin Dhavalikar said on Friday.
Removal demanded by congress MLA
- The ads are currently displayed on the Kadamba Transport Corporation buses as part of an
- advertising contract between the contraception company and the corporation.
- Dhavalikar said the action was being taken after a demand seeking withdrawal of the
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- ads was made by Congress MLA Francis Silveira during the monsoon session of the Goa assembly on August 1.
- “…I also personally request the chairman and managing director of Kadamba (Transport Corporation)
- that such type of ads are not to be considered in future, so that there wont be any problem towards the public,” Dhavalikar said.
- “Whatever posters that are objected (to) by the public, I will request Chairman and MD of
- Kadamba to remove that and take necessary cognizance in future.”
- Furthermore, Silveira told reporters at the state assembly complex that he was glad the Bharatiya Janata Party-led
- coalition government took cognizance of his complaint.
- “Goa is a beautiful place, a tourism destination.
- Goans are good people this cannot be allowed to happen here,” Silveira said in conclusion.