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MARGAO
Aam Aadmi Party said that the manner in which lockdown rules and procedures were being followed in the state showed that the government used different yardsticks in dealing with different people wherein the sufferer was ultimately the common man.
AAP leader Ramiro Mascarenhas said that the government was failing to understand that it had inherent shortcomings in quarantining all entrants into the state and was found to be forcing only Goans into quarantine, who otherwise were responsible enough to take care of themselves and others.
He said that there were enough reports of a large number of people boarding goods trains operating on the KR route and entering into Goa who, leave alone quarantine, were not even subjected to a basic thermal scanner, but were dispersing unnoticed in Goa. He said that data on drivers, cleaners and workers entering through trucks and on foot bypassing state borders was not maintained.
He wondered how the quarantine procedures were not applicable to the workers of 2,000 industries and road works that had started and hordes of labour that have sneaked into the state.
