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Henrique Salles da Fonseca
Citando Stephen Dias <[email protected]>:
CITY MARKET BLUNDERS
STEPHEN DIAS
DONA PAULA
We welcome the decision of the Chief Minister to instruct the police
to fine people not wearing masks and also penalise those spreading
rumours about COVID cases.
Does our CM know what is happening to our Panjim Market? The CCP
Mayor is acting as anti-people as the Taleigao Panchayat.
We Panjimites were dependent on the Panjim market as it was a
one-stop place we could get everything efficiently. Then came Covid
and we realised the value of the TALEIGAO FARMERS who grew
vegetables in their fields and sold them on the side of the road.
Otherwise with the lockdown people would have been starving. Using
the COVID lockdown TALEIGAO Panchayat filled some of these precious
fields near the PANCHAYAT GHAR to grab around 6000 sq mtrs of
fertile land. In the face of criticism, instead of positive action
by the Sarpanch of Taleigao Panchayat (which is supposed to be FOR
the people not AGAINST them) they stopped peaceful agitation by
farmers and activists by arresting them and dragging them physically
without justification.
Now when we need essential commodities from the market the
Municipality is doing further confusion. Vendors were given
permission to sell their vegetables near Inox with all sorts of
instructions by the Mayor. Then all of a sudden there was news of a
positive Covid case. A bartender near the fish market absconded and
was not traceable even by the police and everyone panicked. Then
there was a rumour that a vegetable seller was infected.
After a big noise by the market association leader and the public,
there was a series of press statements by the Mayor about all the
different timings and ultimately now the market is being kept open
to the public as the authorities say the news was fake.
I feel all those who were spreading rumours and making us dance to
their tunes, including the Mayor, need to be taken to task. If an
ulterior motive is found, may be even an FIR needs to be filed.
STEPHEN DIAS
PANJIMITE AND RESIDENT OF DONA PAULA AND SENIOR CITIZEN
15.6.2020
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