SATURDAY, MAY 04, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: Revolutionary Goans on Saturday hit out at Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant over the deteriorating law and order situation and how the State and its machinery has clearly transferred to women the responsibility to protect themselves.
It also demanded stringent measures to ensure women’s safety in the State.
Revolutionary Goans women’s wing leader Sunayana Gawde opined that the police has to take stern steps to curb the increasing cases of crime in Goa. Crimes especially against women are on the rise with the spike in migrant population and hence the necessary steps need to be taken by the government.
“The State and its machinery has clearly transferred to women the responsibility to protect themselves and how they should take precautions or what they should do in an emergency situation. We are totally aghast by the comments passed by Chief Minister few days earlier asking parents of two girls allegedly raped on Sunday to introspect why their children were on a beach late at night. There was a time when women felt safe and could move around freely. But today things seem to have changed for women who venture out for education, work, and entertainment or simply to travel,” pointed out Gawde.
“Public spaces are turning extremely unsafe for women of all ages with predators lurking everywhere. There are a whole lot of issues like streetlights, public transport system, swift action that need to be addressed by the government,” she added.
Revolutionary Goans demanded the government to install CCTV surveillance cameras across the State, stop illegal businesses of migrants, demolition of illegal slums on Communidade land, compulsory police verification of all migrants, strict police patrolling and cancellation of illegal electoral photo identity cards of migrants.
