Team Herald
MARGAO: Adv Seoula Vaz, citizen of Fatorda submitted a memorandum to South Goa District Collector Ruchika Katyal on Wednesday demanding that the curfew be lifted at the earliest if the State is fully vaccinated. She alleged that the government is trying to suppress the voice of the people by extending the curfew imposed in wake of COVID pandemic.
Speaking to the media along with Ethel Lobo, Radha Kavlekar and others at the Collectorate office, she said, “When the State has achieved 100 per cent vaccination (at least first dose) as reported by Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant, the question arises as to why the need to impose restrictions, prohibitions and Curfew. In Goa presently orders under section 144 prevail whereby public gatherings and active interactions are sought to be prohibited on the pretext that COVID cases are prevalent. You will be either denied permission or the police will be deployed to disrupt the peaceful assembly, notwithstanding that time curfew is operative. People are fearful and cautious to come out. The power of the people to organise, and mobilise is systematically curtailed to benefit the ruling dispensation that is allowing everything else to go on unabated except public dissent.”
“On the one hand it has come to light that at the Goa border at Patradevi, inter-State travellers are being allowed to enter the State without COVID negative RTP CR certificate and without vaccination, and inside Goa citizens are subject to restrictions and prohibitions. ,” she said.
