It is deplorable that the ensuing session of the Goa Legislative Assembly is again going to be a very brief one, a mere four days just to comply with the constitutional requirement that gap between the two sessions of legislature of the state cannot be more than six months. The BJP whilst in the opposition vociferously […]
Month: December 2022
SIT TO PROBE LAND GRABBING BY MANDREM MLA JIT AROLKAR
Goa’s Director General of Police Jaspal Singh has directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) at the Crime Branch to probe the complaint against Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar of having grabbed land admeasuring 1,48,800.00 sq. mtrs situated at Village Dhargal in Pernem of which Mapusa based Rawloo Khalap currently residing in California is a co-owner. The FIR registered […]
LIBERATION OR BONDAGE?
On 19th December Goa may be officially observing Liberation Day, but those in Power have miserably failed to provide even the basic amenities in our little State. We make out that we have been liberated – but from what? We have merely replaced one set of oppressors with another far worse. They have invaded our […]
MY FIRST EMPLOYERS – CESAR & MIMI
As a school student, I was one amongst those selected by the Panaji Jaycee Club for their summer job programme aimed to motivate young students. Under that project ‘Earn while you Learn’ I was placed at Cesar Menezes’s pharma outlet in Panaji. It was a learning experience promoting cosmetic products and toiletries. Cesar even […]
LIFE SHOULD AIM TO SERVE SOCIETY
In life it’s not how long we live but how fulfilling the journey has been. We will not be remembered by the quantum of wealth and materialistic things that we have acquired and amassed but for the social goodwill that we have achieved. Every day has to be a day that we have been able […]
OUR HUMAN RIGHTS ARE SACROSANCT
On 10th December while the world observed Human Rights Day, hopefully we have all vowed to selflessly make our Goa a better place where Human rights are not a privilege of just a few but a rightful liberty entitled to every single Human. It is appalling that this awfully Power intoxicated government pays scant respect […]
THE BJP’S GROSS ABUSE OF POWER
Goa has witnessed Governments under various regimes but the abuse of Power by the BJP is unparalleled. It extends to anything and everything. Every rule and established protocol being brazenly breached. The Goa Legislature Secretariat issues stickers to be used by MLAs on their vehicles. But they have reportedly been doled out to all and […]
BJP FLOUTS THE LAW YET AGAIN
On 11th December after inaugurating the Mopa airport, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a meeting of BJP Ministers and MLAs besides core committee members of the party inside the Airport terminal. This was in total breach of the solemn undertaking given to our High Court. On 1st July 2017 possibly for the first time […]
TALE OF THE EIGHT TRAITORS NOW FACING POLITICAL DESTITUTION
The eight Congress MLAs, who on September 14th hurriedly plunged into the murky waters of BJP without life jackets are now floundering with no escape route. They did not hesitate to betray their voters as the fifty crores that each of them pocketed was too tempting an offer that led to their personal greed taking […]
CM PRAMOD SAWANT MADE A CORRECT U-TURN ON HIS PLEA FOR MUNDKARSHIP
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant withdrew an application filed by him to be declared as Mundkar in Survey No. 60/8 at Cotombi in Bicholim Taluka. This has been revealed in information obtained from Mamlatdar of Bicholim under the Right to Information Act. Pramod Sawant within six months of becoming Chief Minister filed an application on […]