The Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to probe the rampant fraudulent land grabbing will be fruitful only if it is allowed to function free of political interference. But the road ahead for this SIT is bleak with so many BJP leaders including at least two current ministers having close links with the cartel of land grabbers. Over the last decade many BJP leaders from the Centre and other states have acquired a lot of property in Goa and even set up businesses here.
The SIT now set up has an enormous task at hand but we can only hope that it will move on the right path fairly but fearlessly in nailing the culprits after identifying and prosecuting them mercilessly. Pramod Sawant himself may have a lot to explain as to how he so swiftly attained the distinction of transforming himself so rapidly into Mr Property Sawant. Let’s hope that if the probe by SIT is fair and far reaching and without fear or favour that they are not forced to sit on their hands, or their report is not allowed to gather dust on account of undue political interference and coercion.
