SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026

Govt not trying to save irregular houses of Goans

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant while speaking to the media on Tuesday after a committee meeting with Cabinet ministers, MLAs, and officials has said that strict action will be taken against all illegal structures across the state in compliance with a High Court order issued on March 6, 2025. Sawant has said that his government is now also considering issuing an ordinance or introducing a Bill to regularise irregular structures in the state, but emphasised that no illegal structures will be allowed moving forward. Well, it looks like the government of the day is desperately trying to save not the houses of Goans (as being currently projected/claimed through the local media) but the illegal structures/houses of all the neighbouring migrants/outsiders by issuing such an ordinance and which have come up (still coming up) illegally on comunidade land/low lying paddy fields and in other parts of the state to somehow safeguard its own vote bank in Goa. Shame on the BJP government. Atam Goenkarank kharench bhivpachi garaz asa.



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Huge win for federalism and reality check for governors

VINAY DWIVEDI, Benaulim
Published Apr 9, 2025, 9:26 PM IST
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In a strongly worded judgement against the errant Tamil Nadu governor, the Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that governors in opposition-run states cannot be a law unto themselves. RN Ravi has been a habitual constitutional offender as in March last year the SC had admonished him for refusing to reinstate a minister on the CM's recommendation. The verdict not only clears ten pending bills (one of them stuck since January 2020) in one stroke but also limits the power of…

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