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Sonia to get unfriendly reception in Goa
When Congress president Sonia Gandhi lands at the Dabolim airport in Goa on Saturday she better have some answers handy.
Gandhi will be in Goa to address a public rally, two days ahead of Goa’s 50th anniversary of its liberation from Portuguese rule and to lay out a road map for the next 25 years for Goa. While Goa anticipates the Congress road map for the future, it is the present which is haunting the Congress here.
Gandhi will land on Saturday amidst a wave of disenchantment among a large section of the populace over issues ranging from rampant political corruption, illegal mining, maladministration and absence of political credibility, which has reached its nadir with more than half the Cabinet tainted with criminal charges and the CM Digambar Kamat himself fighting to battle charges of illegal mining. Not only that, the Opposition BJP has publicly issued a list of 10 questions relating to illegal mining, corruption in the Congress ranks and obliteration of unique Goan identity, which they want Gandhi to address.
A day before, the village groups of Goa, a collective of more than 60 mofussil groups have planned a massive rally in Panaji, to cap four year long protests against a controversial futuristic land use document - Regional Plan 2021, which civic groups, as well the Opposition, have claimed is overloaded in favour of the real estate lobby.
“We want Sonia Gandhi to see how her Congress is demolishing the unique identity of Goa at break neck speed. This public rally is to tell this Government how the Regional Plan 2021 is handing over Goan forests and farm lands to the real estate mafia,” said Peter Fernandes, who is co-ordinating the protests of the village groups.
“Sonia Gandhi’s Congress is slowly destroying Goa’s unique identity by killing the regional languages and promoting English in schools. The decision was taken by the party High Command. We do not want her here.,” said Uday Bhembre, a Sahitya Akademi award winning writer.
Bhembre was till recent the head of the Congress think tank in Goa and had resigned in wake of the Kamat Government’s MoI decision.
Meanwhile, apprehensive of low crowds at the Gandhi rally, a bus owners association has accused that they were being coerced by the Goa Government’s transport department officials to pull buses off public routes and ferry people for Gandhi’s rally.
When Congress president Sonia Gandhi lands at the Dabolim airport in Goa on Saturday she better have some answers handy.
Gandhi will be in Goa to address a public rally, two days ahead of Goa’s 50th anniversary of its liberation from Portuguese rule and to lay out a road map for the next 25 years for Goa. While Goa anticipates the Congress road map for the future, it is the present which is haunting the Congress here.
Gandhi will land on Saturday amidst a wave of disenchantment among a large section of the populace over issues ranging from rampant political corruption, illegal mining, maladministration and absence of political credibility, which has reached its nadir with more than half the Cabinet tainted with criminal charges and the CM Digambar Kamat himself fighting to battle charges of illegal mining. Not only that, the Opposition BJP has publicly issued a list of 10 questions relating to illegal mining, corruption in the Congress ranks and obliteration of unique Goan identity, which they want Gandhi to address.
A day before, the village groups of Goa, a collective of more than 60 mofussil groups have planned a massive rally in Panaji, to cap four year long protests against a controversial futuristic land use document - Regional Plan 2021, which civic groups, as well the Opposition, have claimed is overloaded in favour of the real estate lobby.
“We want Sonia Gandhi to see how her Congress is demolishing the unique identity of Goa at break neck speed. This public rally is to tell this Government how the Regional Plan 2021 is handing over Goan forests and farm lands to the real estate mafia,” said Peter Fernandes, who is co-ordinating the protests of the village groups.
“Sonia Gandhi’s Congress is slowly destroying Goa’s unique identity by killing the regional languages and promoting English in schools. The decision was taken by the party High Command. We do not want her here.,” said Uday Bhembre, a Sahitya Akademi award winning writer.
Bhembre was till recent the head of the Congress think tank in Goa and had resigned in wake of the Kamat Government’s MoI decision.
Meanwhile, apprehensive of low crowds at the Gandhi rally, a bus owners association has accused that they were being coerced by the Goa Government’s transport department officials to pull buses off public routes and ferry people for Gandhi’s rally.
