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From: floriano
To: Gomantak Times
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:21 AM
Subject: Press Note for kind favour of Publication - Re: SC Halts Mining
Activity in Goa.
Date: 06.10.2012
To,
The Editor,
GOMANTAK TIMES,
Panjim-Goa
Sir,
Sub: Press Note for kind favour of Publication - Re: SC Halts Mining Activity
in Goa.
The Goa Su-Raj Party hails the decision of the Apex Court to halt all mining
activity in Goa, forthwith. The Party also hails the decision of 'Goa
Foundation' to take this matter of indiscriminate, unlawful and illegal mining
in Goa to the Supreme Court in a well deserved Public Interest Litigation and
congratulates it for it's unbridled success.
This Party is not at all surprised [as reported by the section of the Press]
that Goa's CM, Mr. Manohar Parrikar should take 'full credit' for his actions
in halting mining activity in Goa even prior to the Supreme Court's directive
on 5th. October, 2012, because, taking full credit for things that are even
remotely connected with his decision making process of U-Turns and Super
U-Turns has been the order of the day.
This Party is fully justified in saying this for the following reasons:-
1. With the incriminating Shah Commission Report, he positively did not have
any latitude to do otherwise.
2. Even then, he has not done what he should have done, in the first place,
things like:-
(a) Filing a F.I.R. against his former party colleague and the then Deputy
CM and mines minister, Mr. Digamber Kamat for unauthorized 'Condonation of
Delay' in the
case of the 'Mining Lease NO.2/FEMN/79, where the Shah Commission
Report clearly indicts Mr. Kamat for 'Abuse of Power'.
(b) He wanted to move the 'dump' ore and even clear it for export saying
that the Shah Commission Report is not specific on the matter of already
extracted ores, to
pacify the mine owners.
(b) He even went ahead to put together a special committee to be headed by
retired HC Justice Khandeparkar to certify clean from unclean 'ore' when the
Shah Commission Report classifies all extracted ore to have been
illegally extracted whether the mines were legal or illegal, and since all
mines had flouted their
actual, permitted jurisdictions. To add 'insult to injury', he wanted
this special (loaded) committee to find flaws in the Shah Commission Report so
that he could get
away with the already declared MURDER of GOA through rampant illegal
mining. Confiscation of this extracted ore to recover the whopping Rs. 35,000
Crore loot
has never been on his mind.
(c) GMOEA [Goa Mineral Ore Export's Association] is an unregistered body
which has been parallelly involved in exporting illegally extracted ore from
Goa. He should
have started an earnest investigative probe into this illegal
Association and bring it to books, or at least expose it's clandestine
operations. He has failed miserably on
this account.
(d) He should have been way ahead on the recovery road of the loot of Rs.
35,000 Crores which has been taking place since the year 2000 as endorsed by
the Supreme Court giving credence to the Shah Commission Report, to
offset Goa's dependent families on mining of their liabilities with the banks
through this
recovered money and generally to rehabilitate all the Goan families
where they have been directly or indirectly depended on the illegal mining
industry in Goa. But
alas! He has been busy inaugurating the 'Magic Buses' of the indicted
in Shah Commission Report Mine Owners who are seeking to pacify the aggrieved
people
after having been raped for years on end.
(e) His Police Stations ( He is the Home Minister) pass-off sensitive
information to the pro-mining lobby of the impending study visit to the mines
in the area
(Sanguem) of the Journalist's Association so that the unsuspecting
scribes are unduly held hostage by the pro-mining mob for hours with threats of
killing them. No
action has been taken on this account where his police department has
been on the PAYROLL of the mine owners at all times.
and finally,
(f) Instead of trying to solve the problems of the mining industry
aggrieved general public, he has been adding to the already burdened State's
Treasury through
sanctioning of schemes that are totally unnecessary at this very
moment, schemes such as Laadli Laxmi and others, even to the extent of
borrowing from the
market Rs. 200 Crores in his populous move to sustain his vote-bank in
a very irresponsible manner at the cost of the Tax Payer.
The Goa Su-Raj Party is, therefore, forced to ask the pertinent question as
to whether the Manohar Parrikar Government is not the IRRESPONSIBLE
Government.
Thanking you,
Yours Sincerely,
for Goa Su-Raj Party
Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
General Secretary & Spokesperson
383A Pirazona Moira Bardez Goa - 403 507
Tel/Fax: 91 832 2470 223
Mobile: 9890470896 / 9422060347
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.goasu-raj.org
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Goa Su-Raj Party strongly believes that Parliamentary Elections must be
contested by National Parties only AND/OR by a Federation of State Regional
Parties.
with a reciprocating understanding by the National Parties that the 'State
Elections' shall be the prerogative of State Registered Political Parties
only. Even then, and in the absence of such a ruling by the Election Commission
of India, GSRP would want GOANS who are ERUDITE, knowledgeable about India
and its problems, as well as World affairs, 'STATESMEN/WOMEN' , to contest
on it's 'TICKET' in the coming 2014 Parliamentary Elections. Let GOA endeavour
to send two real Parliamentarians to the House of the People in New Delhi for
once.
