The Government says the Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill is for the locals and not migrants. If this is so, people have to make these demands…
- Make eligibility for the scheme “resident since birth and not 30 years.”
- Define bhumiputra clearly, bhumiputra or the son of the soil whose two or three generations have resided in Goa. Hence make the Bill applicable for Goans only.
- Announce that the illegal dwellings in the slums would not be regularised.
- No regularisation of illegal structures on communidade lands
SURAJ NANDREKAR
Editor, Goemkarponn
We did that during the Citizens Amendment Bill, the Double tracking of Railway line and Mollem deforestation but now is the real-time for Goa to rise and fight for your right. If not today, Goa will never be the same again.
Your rights are being trampled upon Goemkars by these greedy politicians, and before we become a minority in our land, we need to fight back to get them back our rights.
If today we concede defeat and allow Government to bulldoze this law, it will only encourage inbound migration. The politicians would no longer want a local vote as they would be dependent on migrants, which has already been happening in many constituencies. Already we are witnessing a spurt in crimes in which the majority of criminals are migrants.
Today, we are debating whether our children should be let out late evening or not. The situation has arisen due to increased migration and their involvement in crimes.
Goans, this is the time to get out of the deep slumber and democratically question the Government. When I say fight, it does not by anyway mean violence.
The Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill is just a ploy to please the migrant vote bank ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections.
The Government says the Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill is for the locals and not migrants. If this is so, people have to make these demands…
- Make eligibility for the scheme “resident since birth and not 30 years.”
- Define bhumiputra clearly, bhumiputra or the son of the soil whose two or three generations have resided in Goa. Hence make the Bill applicable for Goans only.
- Announce that the illegal dwellings in the slums would not be regularised.
- No regularisation of illegal structures on communidade lands
Suppose the Government is so serious, then it has to define a bhumiputra clearly. We all know for whose benefit and by whom these Bills have been brought in the Assembly.
We all know the State has several slums, including in the ministers’ constituencies involved in bringing this Bill.
Revenue Minister Jennifer Monsertte introduced the Bill in Assembly, and she has two slums, one in Camra Bhat and Peter Bhat, which are her vote-banks. Similarly, her husband, Panaji MLA Babush Monseratte, has a migrant vote-bank at St Inez and Bhatlem.
Moreover, Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho, whose department will be the implementing authority, has his axe to grind at Dabolim.
Not just these two, most of all 40 MLAs – Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat (Moti Dongor), Health Minister Vishwajit Rane (Valpoi), Luizinho Faleiro (Navelim – Davorlim, Rumdamol), Churchill Alemao (Pedda), St Cruz MLA Tony Fernandes (Indira Nagar, Chimbel), Reginald Lourenco (Kargil), Dy CM Babu Kavlekar (nr Peace Valley), Dy CM Babu Azgaonkar (Babunagari), Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo (Aradi, Candolim), Joshua D’Souza (Mapusa), Alina Saldanha (Zuarinagar), Milind Naik Baina) have their vote banks in slums.
Cuncolim, Curchorem, Porvorim, Velim, Thivim, Betim and Fatorda also have a sizeable number of migrant vote banks staying in illegal houses.
