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Increasing crimes make Goa unsafe destination

Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate has fed us with all fake and false promises. Even that promised 30 bedded full-fledged Ribandar Health Centre has ended up as a total sham.

In May 2019 during that Panaji by-election Babush Monserrate had promised the people of Panaji that the casinos would be moved out of the River Mandovi within 100 days. But as expected made a U-turn. 

While in the Opposition the BJP had vociferously branded casinos as a “social evil” and had called them "dens of vice" while vowing to make sure that all casinos were thrown out of Goa if the BJP came to power. But in a dramatic U-turn in March 2012 after coming to power, the BJP has gone all out to promote, shield and infact increase the casinos trade in the name of promoting tourism.

Ironically the RSS which sets and gears the agenda for the BJP is known to be against gambling but their silence on casinos is deafening. The BJP and now Babush Monserrate have fallen in passionate love with the casino brigade. 

Goa has sadly become the country’s gambling hub while the crime rate is on a steep rise. A once tranquil is today a very unsafe destination.


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Is Goa a colony of Delhi like it was of Portugal?

ARWIN MESQUITA, Colva
Published Oct 16, 2021, 12:22 AM IST
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It is really sad to see whenever a central minister visits Goa, the Goa Chief Minister and rest of the ministers act as if their employer from Delhi is on a visit and go all out of their way to please him/her; as if their career is on the line (like how we see in many corporations). We can also see it in their body language towards the Central visitor?Is Goa not a democracy? Are the people who vote in these ruling Goa politicians not the final bosses? Is Goa a colony of…

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