Rapists seems to enjoy preferential treatment under BJP rule in Goa - By Nisser Dias

Sorrowing lies my land under
BJP

Imported chief minister of Goa Pramod Sawant seems to have completely lost his bearings. To blame the victims of rape at Benaulim beach or their parents is like the chief minister agreeing that Goa has become lawless under the BJP rule.

What right does anybody has to violate a girl, even if she is out late in the night or if she is wearing skimpy clothes or even if she is without any clothes.

As the head of the state and the head of home department he should at least a small amount of common sense that rape is committed by rapists or criminals not by women being out late. Blaming the victims and their parents is like rubbing salt into their wounds.

By questioning the movements of the victims, is this non-Goan chief minister sending criminals a message to rape, murder, rob and commit other crimes?

Has Sawant forgotten the rape of a young girl in a school during regular hours in Vasco when late Manohar Parrikar was the chief minister? This victim was in school, not at an isolated spot or on the beach late into the night, but was raped under BJP rule.

The accused in this case was not even identified forget arrested. And the current government is building a memorial for the late chief minister who goofed up the investigation and could not give justice to the young victim.

By blaming the victims of rape at Benaulim beach or their parents Pramod Sawant has scored a self goal and completely exposed himself of being incapable, incompetent of governing the state and inept of handling the home portfolio. Over and above he has disgraced himself.

This incumbent chief minister has the habit of putting his foot in the mouth while trying to make his point and it is because he does not know Goa’s culture and history.

There is a legend that is passed down from our ancestors that during the Portuguese era, one could peacefully sleep in houses with doors and windows wide open. It was because there was fear of law.

However this ‘fear of law’ was laid to rest in the Assembly in 2002 when policemen dressed as ‘Marshals ’ were ordered to bodily lift legislators out of the August House again under the BJP regime.

CM of Goa: Is he the saviour to
the victims or rapists?

So the opposition has rightly pointed out that the law and order has collapsed or that there is no fear of law in Goa and criminals can get away with any crime.

Questioning the presence of youngsters on the beach late into the night is one aspect, what were the rapists or criminals doing in public place at that hour and where were the police?

Why were the men-in-uniform not patrolling these public areas? Or is it that they visit these spots only to issue fines for traffic violation or not wearing masks and to collect their hafta?

And have we forgotten the recent incident of a police sub inspector involved in rape of a girl. Does the chief minister have an answer for that?

That the police department is yet to arrest one of their own involved in heinous crime also sends a message to criminals that they can get away with anything under the BJP regime in Goa.

Furthermore it is rumoured that one of the ministers in the current dispensation was trying to influence the police in fudging the investigation and police officials especially the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers are so malleable they simply crawl when asked to bend as most of them want a piece of Goa after retirement and hence does not want to upset the powers that be.

Though an enquiry should be held into this aspect but surely it won’t happen as the non-Goan chief minister of Goa does not have the grit nor grime for it.

 

Goans shed fears of scarecrows and their shadows long back. NSA and police can’t deter us -- By Nisser Dias

Chief minister and his caged parrots

As Goa commemorated its 75^th year of Revolution Day on (18^th June 2021) non-Goan chief minister of Goa Pramod Sawant ordered the south Goa Collector to invoke National Security Act in the district.

The timing of the decision is very pertinent. BJP led government in Goa is on a sticky wicket because of its controversial decisions to bring about destruction of environment in the state.

This government want to suppress the voice of environmentalists, activists, writers and opposing political leaders six months before the Assembly elections.

National Security Act (NSA) is a draconian law that allows preventive detention for months, if authorities are satisfied that a person is a threat to national security or law and order.

Its wide sweeping powers give the government which is on a backfoot to target any individual who challenges the decisions of the government.

In 2019 Congress government in Madhya Pradesh under Kamal Nath booked 3 individuals under NSA for cow slaughter. How can this act be a threat to national security? BJP government in UP under Yogi Adityanath government used NSA against cow slaughters in 2020 and in 2021 against persons for spreading rumours of oxygen shortage to treat Covid-19 patients.

Governments are known to use this Act very loosely and liberally to shift the blame of mis-governance, mal-administration and divert attention.

Basically these security laws are designed to enhance the executive’s powers in ways that facilitate human rights abuses. And governments do use these laws to quell opposition and instil fear in people. Pramod Sawant government is no different and he draws his strength from his bosses in Delhi who have imposed undeclared emergency in the country.

Mis-managed Covid-19
pandemic

Chief minister should know that his days are numbered at the helm of affairs. He has been a total failure. He has mis-managed the finances of the state and dropped the state into dept trap. He has mis-managed the covid-19 pandemic causing deaths of thousands of citizens while he enjoys the perks of the office at the cost of tax payer.

Even shameful is his act of asking the police to initiate action on those persons criticizing them. This is like imposing military rule in the state.

It basically means people cannot criticize his mis-governance as they will be booked under NSA at the same time action will be initiated against persons criticizing the police.

Thus all activists, environmentalists, political opponents, writers and even journalists have to tread carefully and not oppose government decisions of destroying people lives by transporting coal, destruction of environment by allowing power project, double tracking of railway line and highway through eco-sensitive, bio-diversity rich Mollem, or government will let the police to hound you with sedition charges or NSA or Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)

In this era of BJP rule at the centre and state, the police force has been reduced caged parrots. Be it the Director General of Police and the ranks below they act as puppets when strings are pulled.

Shel-Melaulim send police 
packing.

 Lest the government and the police forget, in January this year   people of Sattari taluka challenged and chased the police away   and forced Sawant government to shelve setting up of IIT in   Shel-Melaulim, even though chief minister was determined to go   ahead with the project.

 Pramod Sawant has utterly failed as chief minister; he does not   understand administration, does not understand finance, does   not understand law and order and has no clue of what       governance is all about.

And for that reason he wants to impose NSA and use police instil fear in people before the elections in February 2022.

But Pramod Sawant unlike you, Goans drove the Portuguese to claim their land and in the process shed our fears.

We will not be quelled by scarecrows like you chief minister and your shadows (police).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.