Panaji, Nov 19 (TIWN) A day after the now former chairman of the Congress party's minority cell in Goa, Urfan Mulla, formally joined the BJP and slammed the Opposition party for paying lip service to minority issues, state Congress president Girish Chodankar has hit back at him.

"If he had resigned on account of those issues and stayed out of politics without joining any party, whatever he said would have value. Now, he is just reading out from a script prepared by the BJP," Chodankar told reporters.