While casinos became Goa’s leading import swiftly converting the State into India’s casino gambling capital, our matka gambling has now become Goa’s leading export by extending its evil tentacles of human misery thousands of miles in a big way to the United Kingdom. Will it stop there or will it be the stepping stone to Las Vegas, Macau or even to Paris.The Goa government may also now decide to procure documents from the UK on how Goa’s matka has been illegally exported and set up shop there. While spearheading that agitation against casinos, the BJP had vowed to make sure that all casinos were thrown out of Goa. But in a dramatic U-turn in March 2012 after coming to power, the BJP has gone all out to promote, shield and increase the number of casinos. Ironically the RSS is known to be against gambling but their silence on casinos is deafening. While the BJP is feasting on the cash flow from the casinos, the overall damage that is being inflicted on the State and the people by these casinos is irreversible.
