Flays CM for sleeping over minority commission
TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
MARGAO: Asserting that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is taking minorities for a ride, Fr Eremito Rebello has said the Chief Minister is now using leaders of the minorities to divide them perhaps as per the hidden agenda of their ideology.
In a statement, Fr Eremito said the Chief Minister had promised him on the eve of the 2012 Assembly election in the presence of Matanhy Saldanha to set up a minority commission under which he would solve the MoI issue under minority rights in such a way that no one would be able to challenge it. “Till date, the minority commission has not been appointed in spite of so many reminders by me for last two years”, he said.
Secondly, Fr Eremito pointed out that he and Fr Valeriano Vaz had handed a file to the Chief Minister in March 2012, the day after Matanhy was sworn in as the Tourism Minister, concerning a hospital for people suffering from Alzheimer’s (memory loss), which the Caritas-Goa was keen to build. “The Chief Minister congratulated us for this kind of job which the government is not in a position to do. He said the priests and nuns are capable of doing it. I will make provision for it in the budget. The file is gathering dust with the Chief Minister since the last two years for reasons best known to him”, he said, adding that the MoI problem facing the minority community is in the air, with the Chief Minister neither formulating a policy nor any circular on the matter.
Fr Eremito said the people of Goa will judge and evaluate whether the Chief Minister sincerely cares for the minorities, tribals etc., or whether his promise are only castles in the air.
