GOA SU-RAJ PARTY - GSRP
Floriano Lobo - Gen Secretary & Spokesperson addresses the Print n
Electronic Media at the Party Office at Mapusa on 26 July, 2012 at 4.30 p.m.
GSRP'S STAND ON:
ISSUE NO. ONE:
"THE 'LAADLY LAXMI' SCHEME OF THE CURRENT BJP GOVERNMENT"
1. GSRP is not against this scheme in particular, or any other schemes
which are directed towards the betterment and well-being of the weaker
sections of GOANS. In fact GOA should have been better prepared to help
weaker sections of GOANS to face the difficult times when it has become
difficult to make ends meet.
2. While GOA is borrowing heavily for it's up-keep, even to pay the
salaries of Government staff and workers, with the ' debt trap' having
crossed Rs. 5000 crores with it's interest payment implications, it is
hardly prudent on the part of the Government to be over-generous while
spending Tax-Payer's Money on grandiose schemes like 'Laadly Laxmi', etc.,
and get embroiled in controversies to the extent that such controversies
reach the doors of the Bombay High Court at Goa.
3. There are other more important PRIORITIES that conscious governments
should apply themselves to, priorities like settling the 'Garbage Menace'
issue which has become intolerable and getting a bad name for GOA, potable
water woes; non-traffic-management and parking chaos; sanitation and
hygiene and most importantly, catering to providing decent JOBS for GOANS
and especially the YOUTH who are being wasted. Goa's prime priority is to
set up INDUSTRIES which will employ educated GOANs profitably, and not
industries which will employ non-goans, so that they can take care of their
off-springs with respect to their EDUCATION and their MARITAL requirements.
4. 'Laadly Laxmi' Scheme is hardly appropriate at times like these
where the heavily borrowing government of the day is more preoccupied with
getting GOA's Laadly Laxmis married. With all the controversies surrounding
this scheme and the way the application forms have been distributed to
favour the BJP MLAs, it is evident that the BJP in Goa is more preoccupied
with establishing it's Party's VOTE-BANK rather than being preoccupied with
the welfare of the people of GOA.
5. If at all such welfare schemes are put on the road for deserving
GOANs, these should be controlled by autonomous cells especially set-up
like 'CIVILIAN WELFARE SERVICES BOARDS' etc. for equitable and impartial
distribution, not even Panchayats and/or other Government Departments which
hardly qualify as impartial bodies but which are heavily controlled and at
the beck-n-call of who is who in the Government.
ISSUE NO. TWO:
"DEMAND FOR SPECIAL STATUS FOR GOA"
1. This demand of GOANs has been ignored since 1961 even by Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru who was vocal nationally and internationally on protecting
the 'westernized' 'Culture' and the unique 'Identity' of GOANS acquired
over four and a half centuries. Such protection is linked to the protection
and safe-guarding of the rights of GOANs to their LAND, which has gone
missing since the early 70's.
2. Erstwhile Congress coalition Government of Mr. Digamber Kamat and
the present Government of Manohar Parrikar are mixing 'Special Category'
(which is purely financial in nature) with 'Special Status' ( which is the
universal protection of Goa's Culture, Ethos and Land with it's resources)
and which is specified under Article 371 of the Indian Constitution and
which Article needs to be amended to suit GOA'S DEMANDS on the lines of
Nagaland, Kashmir etc.
3. GSRP believes that the appellation 'SPECIAL CATEGORY STATUS' is
purposefully coined-up to confuse it with the real demand for SPECIAL STATUS
FOR GOA. Special Status for Goa is not only about getting more finances to
the State from the Centre and the banning of sale of agricultural land to
non-goans. A more comprehensive demand for Special Status for Goa must be
made of the Centre through passing of an appropriate RESOLUTION in the Goa
Legislative Assembly, prepared and compiled through genuine interaction
with the Citizen's Groups and ignored conscious citizens of Goa, so that
the Centre gets the correct picture of what Goans are aspiring for, with
respect to the commitment of INDIA to GOANS prior to 1961, through
promises made by India's first Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself.
4. GSRP does hope that the Manohar Parrikar Government will act
responsibly and with utmost caution on this matter of non-dilution of the
DEMAND FOR SPECIAL STATUS FOR GOA.
PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU IN PARLIAMENT, NEW DELHI, INC NAGPUR CONGRESS
CONVENTION.
[WORDS TO THIS EFFECT]
QUOTE:
We will not force GOANS to join the Indian Union. Let them decide what they
want to do. But we do not want the Portuguese in Goa. Goans have acquired
distinctive identity over the years which India is obligated to protect and
to preserve
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Floriano Lobo
Gen. Secretary/Spokesperson
GOA SU-RAJ PARTY - GSRP
9890470896 - 9422060347
