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MARGAO
The Aam Aadmi Party has said that its stand against forced paid quarantine was proved right with the Union Home Ministry through yet another oder issued on April 29 ordering assessment of condition and home quarantining of persons stranded outside and now returning to the State.
AAP has once again demanded an end to forced paid quarantine stating that it was gross injustice to all, especially the poor, who were not so fortunate to be in their homes when the sudden lockdown announcement came.
AAP Convenor Elvis Gomes said that the party was concerned about force quarantining of people, including seafarers, of Goa who were stranded outside the State due to the lockdown.
He regretted that the Chief Minister was diverting the issue by stating that seafarers were not required to pay quarantine fee but their companies or agents were.
Gomes said he could prove that at least two seafarers have been forced into quarantine by demanding immediate payment of hotel charges.
He also asked whether the seafarers whose health condition has been assessed and corona test has come negative would be sent to home quarantine as per the latest order of the home ministry.
Meanwhile, Gomes also said that care has to be taken to ensure that the agents who the CM had claimed would bear the quarantine expenses do not deduct the same from the salaries of the seafarers after they rejoining the vessels.
