Goemkarponn Desk
CALANGUTE: Concerned about how things are going in their beach village, the Calangute Block Congress blamed the increase in dance bars, touts, and drugs for the issue and demanded that the illegal activities be stopped right away.
Congress leader Rajan Korgaonkar used Brahmeshanand Swami’s recent comment—which compared the atmosphere of Calangute to that of Thailand—to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.
Every stop has dance bars, and touts are free to roam around. In the village, ganja, charas, and cocaine are all readily accessible. Such unlawful activities that damage Calangute’s reputation ought to be stopped by the Chief Minister and the local MLA, according to Korgaonkar.
He emphasized how urgent it is to stop these kinds of activities, as they have made local women fearful and have limited their freedom of movement.
In the North Goa Congress District office in Mapusa, Youth Congress Vice President Vivek D’Silva and Calangute Block Congress members were speaking to the media.
Korgaonkar went on to criticize the government’s inaction in the face of popular opposition to dance bars, pointing to the High Court’s intervention as the impetus for any semblance of action.
The president of the Calangute block, Lawrence Silveira, expressed dissatisfaction with the “Vikasit Bharat” program’s continuation in spite of the ongoing code of conduct, highlighting the government’s continued disregard for the complaints of shack and taxi owners.
Vivek D’Silva, the vice president of the youth Congress, stated that the BJP-led government’s words alone were insufficient and called for specific action.
He demanded the appointment of more capable officers to deal with such cases and criticized the special treatment granted to builder lobbyists, which led to harassment of the average person.
“The TCP department of the same government issues permission for high-rise buildings near the beach, but the chief minister says we cannot build high-rise buildings on the beachside,” D’Silva said.
