MARGAO
Terming the appointment of a five-member committee by TCP Minister Vijai Sardesai as just a “diversionary tactic” and an attempt by the Minister to buy time to give permissions for projects that are against the interests of Goa and Goans, Goencho Avaaz has reiterated its warning that any permission given against the interests of Goa and Goans will be severely punished by the people.
Demanding to know how can the TCP Minister who himself is allegedly a beneficiary of the RP 2021 appoint a committee to investigate his own land cases, Goencho Avaaz said the TCP Minister should first resign and then offer himself for the investigations.
The organisation has vowed to pursue all forms of criminal and other actions against the persons concerned, starting with the TCP Minister and the Chief Town Planners.
“The demand of Goencho Avaaz remains the same, that is, setting aside the ill-conceived, illegal and erroneously prepared RP 2021 that benefits only the real estate lobby, land speculators and the politicians. Furthermore, Goencho Avaaz would like to highlight that in the last Assembly, the present TCP Minister was an opposition MLA and had vociferously demanded the scrapping of the same RP 2021. How is it that since becoming a Minister, he has suddenly developed new found love for the same faulty RP 2021 that he demanded scrapping,” Goencho Avaaz questioned.
Goencho Avaaz co-convenor Viriato Fernandes said that the organisation has given irrefutable evidence against the TCP Minister himself and the benefits he will make from the RP 2021, which allegedly shows the Minister’s own lands in Varca, including low-lying coastal fields and a water body, as settlement in gross violation of the law.
“The RP 2021 is an illegal plan prepared only for builders and land speculators to make massive profits by destroying Goa irreversibly and permanently. Goencho Avaaz reiterates our demand for setting aside RP 2021 and commencing the preparation of RP 2031 with active involvement of the villagers, in accordance with amendment 73rd and 74th of the Constitution, and based on proper baseline data as mandated by the TCP Act itself,” he demanded.
