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MARGAO
The Aam Aadmi Party has objected to the move of forcing Goans entering the State to compulsorily go for paid quarantine in a hotel in Panaji and demanded that it be made optional for those who wish to pay for some better facilities.
Calling such forcible action as nothing but loot of the common man, AAP Convenor Elvis Gomes while relating to a case of a known seafarer who after undergoing a 28 days quarantine in Mumbai had arrived with all clearances, said that there was no justification in compelling him or for that matter anyone to pay and get quarantined.
“AAP will write to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The government is ordering quarantine and on top of it, forcing people to pay. I don’t think this is fair, especially for those who are financially not good,” said Gomes.
He also said that there was already a video of one Shailendra Sardessai who had claimed to have been forced into quarantine in a hotel in Mapusa and driven to insanity merely for taking foreigners to Mumbai airport and returning the same day. He said that for those tested negative, home quarantine should be allowed without forcibly keeping them in hotels at their own cost.
Meanwhile, AAP has also questioned the laxity at the borders as there were several trucks carrying essential commodities, ore and industrial goods which bring on an average three people who disappear after entering the State.
