Goa having always been a very secular and progressive minded State, it is awfully distressing to now be witnessing communal violence raise its ugly face in our own backyard. This is fracturing our once very peace-loving, harmonious and tranquil State.
The law enforcement authorities are duty bound to crack down with an iron hand and root out those anti-social elements that with vested interests are denting and disturbing our communal harmony. Those spreading seeds of communal discord must be mercilessly put out to pasture.
It is imperative that the Political class must rise to the occasion by displaying statesmanship, competence, honesty, dedication, maturity and selfless determination to ensure that Goa remains secular and tranquil.
Our Temples, Mosques and Churches besides other places of worship should be focal points to unite diverse communities instead of creating rifts amongst us. As we are all children of that one loving and tolerant God, there can be no room to divide us on the basis of creed or caste.
Our forefathers having left us a very secular golden Goa, posterity will never forgive us if we do not do everything possible to preserve it.
We should always be guided by those words of the great French intellectual Voltaire “I do not agree with you. But I shall give up my life for your right to say what you wish”
