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We need to now think what kind of tourist we want to welcome?" Sardesai added. World over, international tourists leave when Russians come. Why cannot they stay in hotels? They come and buy plots here and keep building," Sardesai said.At a public gathering in January, Sardesai had said, "Goa should become so expensive that tourists should say that it is not worth coming to Goa.Sardesai, however, told the media that his remarks were in reaction to a bureaucrat who spoke right before him and referred to increased garbage."It’s an idea I always have had.Sardesai is part of the Goa Forward Party, which is in alliance with the BJP in the state government. Those people, how you will control (them)? Can you control them?""We could control them at one point in time. Those tourists are not top-end tourists, they are also the scum of the earth. But we jumped the Russians… We decided to put all eggs in one basket. And, now we are dependent upon the north Indians and this is what they do.Panaji: Goa Town and Country Planning Minister Vijai Sardesai lashed out at domestic tourists on Friday, calling them "scum of the earth" and alleging that "North Indians" are trying to "create a Haryana in Goa. I want to think in those directions. You need to get rich because of rich Indians coming here, and not due to poor Indians who is coming here and dirtying here. It has left an effect on me."Also, look those who come from Delhi, Haryana and Gurgaon, they have a tendency, they want to gobble everything. Here too, among foreigners, we have Russian tourists, we have put all our eggs in one basket.Sardesais vision of tourism reeks of sheer elitism, as he goes on to explain his idea of model tourism, where the rich visit Goa to benefit the states poor.The minister was addressing an audience of industrialists and experts from the tourism industry and after speaking briefly on the essentials for a smart city and garbage segregation Sardesai veered off to the quality of tourists visiting Goa. Fifty years ago, we fought a battle and refused to merge with Maharashtra. We must have high-end facilities and get high-end tourism, which benefits the sons of the soil." "Now we are fighting another kind of battle where these FSI people are coming and affecting our ethos. If you compare Goans to rest of India, we are high in per capita income, social and political consciousness, we are much superior than people who are coming in. They are not bothered about Goa.Contradicting Parrikars push to increase tourists to Goa to one crore, Sardesai said: "Today we have almost six times population of Goa coming as tourists. They want to recreate Haryana in Goa," he added."He took it a notch higher at the Biz fest as he said, "You have to orient the people correctly.""But we also have to accept when you are calling a crore and 20 lakh wheel stops for garage floor tourist into the state, you will have to give them facilities. We all need to look at all of this and I think from a regional point of view, cause that is my ideology.. It all goes back to what Sir Vivian Richards told me at a tourism meet…He said, we can have the best beaches, best architecture, best beauty, but if we don’t have a golf course, it amounts to nothing," he said.

This is not the first time Sardesai has made such distasteful comments about tourists visiting Goa. We In Goa have a certain way of living. Which tourists? The Indian tourists. There are better places," he said. People will keep coming. Tell them brand Goa sells. Are they responsible? They are not. That stayed with me."Speaking at the Goa BizFest in Bambolim, he contradicted Chief Minister Manohar Parrikars ambitious target of one crore tourists and asked the government to target foreign and upper-class Indian tourists. If you don’t give them facilities, they wouldn’t come here."The trick is to attract the rich tourist. The British have gone away