The taxi turf war between tourist taxi operators from Canacona and those from Margao flared up on Tuesday, both accusing each other for obstruction from conducting the taxi business.

While the taxi operators from Canacona stopped a car that had gone to Palolem for a pick up and told the driver to return home, the taxi operators from Margao stopped the car when the driver had come to drop the customer in the city.

As the city taxi drivers later lodged a complaint against the driver with the Fatorda police, a group of tourist taxi drivers from Canacona rushed to the Fatorda police station on late Tuesday.

The taxi operators from Canaona made an impassioned plea to the Chief Minister to work out a solution to the issue of customer pick up done by taxi operators from outside the taluka

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