Freedom is not free. While it is a gift from God, we need to guard and cherish it. Otherwise it will soon be taken away from us. And, this is exactly what has happened in the Goa Assembly a few days ago with the amendment to the Goa Panchayat Act. We can only hope and pray the governor of Goa will not sign it. But the chances are small. That the amendment has been carried out by a Congress government is simply unbelievable and we can only assume these MLAs are not Congressmen at heart but simply conmen. In Kerala where they have a Congress government they have chosen to uphold the spirit of the Constitutional Amendment. Not so in Goa where the so-called Congress Party is committed to destroying the Panchayat institutions and taking away the power of the people. A case has to be made to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi who I'm sure is not at all amused. Not since the Portuguese invasion have we seen something evil to this extent! Unless this problem is addressed immediately and by all the people of Goa our freedom and our democracy hangs in balance. It is for the people of Goa to decide if it is worth the fight.
