PANJIM: Goa is reeling under the onslaught of rapes, murders, assaults and other forms of crimes. The law and order seems to have collapsed completely. In this edition of Street Voices, we asked people, “When there are so many problems facing Goa, is a two day Assembly session justified?”
In “Sarkar Tumchea Dari” there are 200 person of these 150 are government servants and fifty are government chamchas. People do not go there, since people’s work is not done. So the responsibility of raising people’s issues falls on the Opposition MLAs. But today Opposition MLAs cannot question the government because it is only at the Assembly Session where they can raise the issues, but the assembly session is short. But at the last Assembly Session the government did not have answers to assembly questions. This time too they don’t have answers so they have only two day session. One day will be spent in speeches. Second day how many questions can you raise. So government wants to stifle the voice of the Opposition.
Amit Palekar, Convenor AAP Goa
That is government is not for the people, is proven here. In every Assembly Session the Opposition has put the government on the back foot. Our three Congress MLAs have proved too much for their 33. We have exposed them on every issue. There are just so many issues. Five days there was no water in Bardez taluka. Every 33 hours one Goan dies. If any Goan tries to fight any illegality as in Arambol, he is murdered. By migrants coming to Goa dadagiri has increased so much that prostitution, rapes, murders and drugs have increased. In the South there was a rape on a mentally challenged girl. The roads and highways are in bad shape. All these issues have to be raised in the Assembly. Are you having two day assembly session for time pass?
Amit Patkar, President, Goa Congress
They could have extended the two day session during the Business Advisory Committee Meeting. But now you cannot increase the days of the session. Within those two days they have to finish the listed business. No one can hide what is going on in Goa. People are angry, people’s issues are not getting sorted. People feel their issues will be taken up in the Assembly, but this is not happening. Knowing that people are unhappy, they should have increased the days of business. There are so many issues such as land grabbing and other issues, which they could have sorted out. But now that the Session is announced, you cannot extend the days.
Victor Gonsalves, Former MLA