MARGAO
Demanding scrapping of the Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill, 2021 in toto, Congress MLA Reginaldo Lourenco on Monday asserted the Bill will only give non-Goans the status of Goans and will destroy the land, culture and heritage of the state.
While making a fervent plea to the people of Goa to leave behind their differences and come under one banner to oppose the Bill, the three-time MLA said he is ready to lead from the front to unite the people and ensure the Bill is scrapped.
“I appeal to the people to please leave behind their political differences and come together to save Goa. The Bill has the portents to even change the demography of the state”, he said, while addressing the media on Monday.
He added: “The Bill is not a surprise to me but is an expected reality in the design of the BJP government in finishing Goa and Goans and turning them non-entities in their own land. To me, the Bill is a nail in the coffin to bury Goans”.
The Congress MLA said there are village where houses of real Bhumiputras of Goa are closed and even in ruins if not taken over by Bhumiputras as defines in the Bill. “In the beginning, a large number of Christians started immigrating to UK and other European countries, but now our Hindu brothers are following suit. A large number of Goans are settled in UK, France, Germany. This was known to the people in power who deliberately planned to create a situation where Goans would be made to leave their soil”, he added.
Reginaldo demanded to know the contribution of the BJP government to the state in the name of making Goa a Tourism state. “There are only two or three five star hotels owned by the Goan businessman. These hotels had come up during the Congress regime”, he added.
Find permanent solution, stop
Sonsodo fire: Reginaldo to CM
MARGAO: Curtorim MLA Reginaldo Lourenco on Monday made a fervent plea to the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant not to play with their health, with their lives and with their mental peace and to find out a permanent solution for preventing the recurrence of fire at Sonsodo.
Saying that he is in receipt of messages from people of Curtorim constituency and surrounding areas about a shocking revelation that fire has started again at Sonsodo garbage dump, Reginaldo reminded the Chief Minister and Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo that in the year 2019 from May 28th 2019, the Sonsodo garbage dump had constantly witnessed fires. Even in the beginning of summer of the year 2020 there was fire at Sonsodo, he added.
“The populace in and around Sonsodo garbage dump are dejected and frustrated lot as their health is severely affected by the poisonous smoke billowing from now and then fires at the aforesaid site”, he said, while demanding an immediate solution to the fire at the waste dumping site.
