BICHOLIM: In an unusual incident, the Bicholim Municipal Council (BMC) on Thursday decided to postpone a felicitation function after bowing to protests from mining workers in the area.

BMC had decided to felicitate four persons, including environmentalist Ramesh Gawas, but the decision to felicitate Gawas angered the mining workers from Bicholim. A group of angry mining workers went to the BMC office and submitted a memorandum, strongly opposing BMC’s move to felicitate Gawas after alleging that “he was against the commencement of mining activities in the State.”