South Goa Congress candidate and INDIA bloc leaders paying tributes to Dr Jack de Sequeira at Ambelim on Saturday.
MARGAO
South Goa Congress candidate Capt Viriato Fernandes on Saturday urged the people to treat the ensuing May 7 Lok Sabha poll as a second Opinion Poll to save Goa for posterity.
The Congress candidate along with leaders of INDIA bloc paid rich tributes to Dr Jack de Sequeira on his birthday at the life-size statue at Ambelim which was installed by the panchayat with the help and support of the villagers.
Alliance leaders comprising of Opposition leader Yuri Alemao, Velim AAP MLA Cruz Silva, Congress South Goa Co-ordination MLA Altone D’Costa, Congress district President Savio D’Silva, activist Anthony D’Silva and others assembled at the statue to remember the Opinion Poll movement launched by Dr Jack de Sequeira in the year 1967.
Addressing the gathering, Capt Viriato said the time has come for a second Opinion Poll to save Goa from destruction. “We are treating the May 7 Lok Sabha as a second Opinion Poll. Jack de Sequeira and his team, besides the people of Goa had fought to retain Goa as a separate State. But today Goa has become a capital for drugs, rape, murders, unemployment. We have to all join hands to save Goa for posterity,” he added.
While paying his tributes to Dr Jack de Sequeira, Opposition leader Yuri Alemao reminded that the Congress government at the Centre had given the Opinion Poll for the people to Goa to decide their destiny. “The Opinion Poll in Goa is the only Opinion Poll in the history of independent Goa. This has happened because of the Congress, which was also instrumental in giving Statehood for Goa,” Yuri said while urging the people of Goa to take a pledge to teach the corrupt BJP government a lesson in the May 7 Lok Sabha polls.
Velim MLA Cruz underscored the need to have leaders such as Dr Jack de Sequeira in every village and ward to protect the dream of the ancestors to protect Goa’s identity for posterity.
