Global Romi Lipi Abhiyan (GRLA) President Kennedy Afonso while addressing a press conference at Margao on Wednesday has strongly condemned the Goa government's rejection of a resolution to introduce Romi script at the educational level, accusing the ruling BJP of displaying a communal and anti-minority bias. Afonso has said that by denying the rightful place for Romi Konkani in the education system, the BJP government has clearly shown that it does not stand for inclusive governance and has warned all the minority MLAs who chose to stay silent or sided with the government on this issue. Now, why is the BJP government refusing to introduce Romi Konkani script in schools/colleges along with Devanagari Konkani and Marathi despite of knowing the fact that the Christian community use Roman script in their day to day affairs i.e. in religious services in churches, while doing correspondence, reading newspapers, while writing tiatrs/books, printing wedding/invitation cards etc in Goa? Isn't the government dividing Goans by giving an option for children of the majority community to study in Marathi in schools/colleges in the state and forcing the children of the minority community to study only in Devanagari-Konkani script in Goa?
