Chief minister! Resign. You failed. -- By Nisser Dias

 People are dying all around us, they are dying in their cars waiting to be allowed in the hospitals, people are dying in their homes, they are dying in the hospitals. Death is all around us.

Photo-op. No face mask during
Covid vaccination 

And the government has no clue what to do next. The imported chief minister of Goa is busy with photo-ops, appearing on television everyday like a news-reader with advice which makes no sense and playing a covert and clandestine political battle with his health minister over a year now since the deadly virus hit Goa.

But then what can be accept from a man who uses his face-mask to wipe his mouth?

Pramod Sawant, please accept that you have no administrative capability to handle crisis, be it health or financial.

Atleast now accept that you have failed. Step down from the pedestal position. Go home.

The current situation in Goa is of your making. In 2020 you failed in understanding the pandemic, this year even before the second wave could hit Goa, health minister Vishwajit Rane urged you to either stop entry of tourists from neighbouring states spilling into Goa or to make RT-PCR negative report mandatory. Mr. failed chief minister, all the right advices fell on your deaf years.

And now people are dying left, right and centre on your watch. This genocide is of your making. You are wholly responsible for it.

No face mask at 'Hunar Haat'
exhibition

Instead of heeding to the advice and suggestions of the health minister you dashed to Delhi to seek tutorials from home minister Amit Shah, who was himself spreading the virus in West Bengal and the other states that were going to polls. Secondly what better advice would a sadist like Shah provide when he thrives in seeing humans crawl, beg in pain and suffering?

Vishwajit Rane cannot be spared too, he did not have the guts and the spine to stand up to the chief minister to tell him that what he was doing was wrong. While he was in Congress he would roar like a lion but in the BJP he has been reduced to a kitten.

Rane talks only about procuring items. Now he is talking about setting up oxygen plants, why did this thought not come to you early, were you waiting for the disaster to strike?

However in all this, the non-Goan chief minister of Goa cannot be spared because he tried to hog the lime-light since 2020. This is indication that he had usurped the powers of the health minister to project himself as the saviour for Goa which he is not.

The number of Covid mortalities are increasing and closing to three digit figures. Who is responsible for these spiralling deaths. Over the eve of lockdown you inaugurated a bridge with hundreds of your supporters. You allowed ‘Hunar Haat’ exhibition in the thick of the pandemic? Who allowed the Municipal elections? You! Pramod Sawant are responsible for the spread of Covid infection. The blood of all those who have lost their lives is on your hands.

No face mask at new High Court
complex inauguration 

Even the Goa Bench of High Court in its order on a Public Interest Litigation has ordered that the state government to demand a negative certificate issued 72 hours prior from those entering Goa.

This is what the health minister was requesting since the beginning of the second wave in February-March. But you overruled him because of your insecurities.

Pramod Sawant, you have failed. Resign. Goa home.

There is an acute shortage of oxygen, beds, space, vaccines, oxy-meters, ventilators, medicines, health care staff, isolation centres for doctors and health care workers. The health care system is on its last legs. You are responsible for it.

Mr. Chief minister if you had any foresight or vision and opened the state’s purse strings to build a robust health infrastructure Goa and Goans would not be in the current predicament.

Own-up Pramod Sawant that you have morally failed to continue as chief minister. Resign. Go Home.