People of Goa kindly note about their position of voting for by -election when not surrendered their Indian citizenship .Read article by expert writer Elvidio Miranda. Stephen Dias 5.5.2017
Sent from my Samsung device ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "ELVIDIO MIRANDA" <[email protected]> Date: 4 May 2017 08:37 Subject: CLEARING DOUBTS ON CITIZENSHIP ROW To: "Stephen Dias" <[email protected]> Cc: CLEARING DOUBTS > ON CITIZENSHIP ROW > > ELVIDIO MIRANDA > > To clear the doubts and misapprehensions in the minds of the people on the > eligibility of those who can vote in the coming Panchayat elections and the > bye-polls to the two Assembly constituencies viz-a-viz Portuguese > nationality processing, it is to be stated without a shred of doubt that > only those who have surrendered their Indian passports and obtained their > Portuguese passports are not eligible to vote in the upcoming elections > since when obtaining the visa/permit, they have sworn an affidavit to the > Foreigner's Regional Registration Office that their names have been deleted > from the electoral rolls and that they have surrendered their Election > Photo Identity Cards (EPIC). This affidavit is the only binding commitment > that proves beyond doubt that Portuguese passport holders have surrendered > their rights to vote in elections and are thus debarred from contesting the > elections. However those who have the Assento de Nascimento (Birth > Registration), Assento de Casamento (Marriage Registration) and the Bilhete > de Identidade or the now electronic version known as the Cartao de Cidadao > are all eligible to vote and thus by law can also contest elections. The > Ministry of Home Affairs, the Justice Department and the Supreme Court have > still not debarred these entitled voters by passing another law. Thus it is > clear that the same yardstick that had taken effect for the 2017 Assembly > elections continue to hold sway until replaced by a ruling of the MHA, > Justice Department or the Supreme Court. >
