The situation across Goa is alarming and fast deteriorating now. It is high time Chief Minister Pramod Sawant owns responsibility for this hell, by not taking timely preventive measures, particularly for not imposing a month-long total lockdown as was demanded by his Health Minister last month, based on sound advice of medical experts.
The Chief Minister should have never allowed that super-spreader exhibition ‘Hunar Haat’ at Campal. He was duty bound to have postponed those municipal elections. The casinos had to be shut way back and Goa’s borders strictly regulated.
The Chief Minister having failed to do all this, for reasons best known to him, the only way out now is for Pramod Sawant to immediately resign.
It would be prudent to bring back Satya Pal Malik currently in Meghalaya as Governor of Goa. He is already well versed with our State having been here for over nine months as a sturdy Governor. And with the very cordial relations Malik has with all the political parties here, it would be to Goa’s benefit in a well coordinated battle against COVID-19.
