Congress must Act now
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letters
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21 Nov, 2015, 07:37AM IST
Congress
must act now
It looks like the Congress
is out to take advantage of the situation in Goa against the BJP. In a jittery
move the BJP sent out their minority leaders to address press conferences where
a straight forward leader like Mr Lobo was searching for words to convince how
the religious intolerance has not reached Goa. Saying so does he not show
any remorse to the increased incidents of atrocities committed against
all minorities in the whole of india since the BJP came to power at the Centre.
These major central parties are far from understanding the sentiments of Goa
and Goans. It will be good if the Congress joins the local regional parties and
form an alliance rather then playing the big brother who will only play the
role of dividing the votes and getting the BJP enter through the back door. BJP
too will get in their freebies ready like the legislation of illegal houses
which is indeed a game changer acknowledged by the prospective BJP candidate from
Dabolim. Giving away precious communidade land to the migrants as if the land
belongs to the ministers forefathers and was kept not for the Goa’s
future generations but for these self centred politicians to create outsiders
vote bank. It will surely be a game changer to him and all those who want power
at the cost of our beautiful Goa. Daré these ministers to buy the land from the
communidades at market rate and then give it free to the migrants and get votes
in return. All these issues will be better addressed by local parties then the
central parties. A strong group of local parties is a need of the hour
and let congress support such a party and work along with the dispension to
earn the trust of the Goan populace.
Clarence Alvares, Saligao
Terror tentacles
It was both shocking and disturbing to read about the assault by
gunmen and bombers that killed over 130 innocent people on 13th November night.
The Islamic state group took responsibility for the terror attacks.
This violence has spread fear across the four corners of the world
and it shows the communities have lost their trust in each other. Since this
issue is so vital, world leaders and the entire global community should condemn
such incident which has brought untold suffering to many innocent people.
Intolerance anywhere is a threat to humanism everywhere, as it would result in
destruction of human lives and property. In late 1980's, then Pope John Paul II
had called for an inter religion collaboration for a joint struggle against
hunger, poverty ignorance, persecution, discrimination and every form of
slavery of human spirit.
He had then appealed to world leaders for bringing about a
‘Civilization of Love’
I hope our present world leaders will unite together and work in
that direction, as humanity is one big family in the world, where people should
live in peace, harmony and happiness.
Melson F M Louis, Margao
Uprooting terror
I have been reading with great interest the air strikes that
France have carried out on ISIS in Syria following the terrorist attacks on its
soil that killed around 130. But with the Russians and Americans already
bombing Syria and now with the intensified French assaults, are these air
strikes having any effects on ISIS? Besides, if the French already knew the
whereabouts of ISIS bases in
Syria, why did they wait until now to bomb them? Just bombing for
the sake of revenge is not going to work in eliminating the ISIS. The French
president Mr. Hollande may bring temporary satisfaction to the country by
carrying these air strikes whether they are hitting the targets or not is
another question.
In this time of great distress, France along with the US and
Russia must thing logically together to eliminate the menace of ISIS completely
from the face of this world. To do that they must find a way to starve them off
financially by stopping the flow of money that comes into their coffers.
Destroy the oilrigs captured by them in Iraq and Syria or at least the
infrastructure used to smuggle the oil. Check
from where they get arms and ammunition to fight like this and
tear down on the smugglers and the last but not the least the US must seriously
consider now of putting the boots on the ground.
Valent Mascarenhas, Calangute/California
Greeting by Namaste
American Journal of Infection Control has published a report
warning hand-shake to be even more infectious than kissing. Earlier, also
American health authorities had recommended greeting by folded hands instead of
western style by shaking hands or kissing endorsing Indian style of saying
‘namaste’ with folded hands for normal greetings. It is one of many such
glorious aspects of Hinduism which are purely based on highly advanced
scientific theories set by ancient saints after deliberate analysis.
Many similar aspects were fixed as religious rituals so as to be
compulsorily followed by the commoners by our ancient saints. Even followers of
Hinduism deviated from such scientific religious bindings because of multiple
reasons like misuse of religious beliefs by selfish priests and blind following
of western culture. In larger interest of mankind, aspects of Hinduism should
be analyzed and popularised which can be best done by popularizing Sanskrit
which has a wealth of hidden treasure for welfare of mankind.
Madhu Agrawal, Delhi
Bus stoning
The consecutive days of stoning of interstate buses, that too late
at night, is horrific. The Police need to be pulled up: after the first
incident, failing to nab the culprits, they did not take measures to man the
route/provide escorts to the buses till they solve the same. This is absolute
dereliction of duty.
These types of incidents should not raise their ugly heads in Goa:
not only the people who did the actual stoning but the masterminds behind the
attack need to be caught. Such people need to be flushed out of society and
Goans need to know who these people are.
The Governor took time off to ‘extoll’ the ‘virtues’ of a
controversial departed “VHP” leader but did not think to pull up the Govt. on
this incident which is not the way of life here?
We recall the Governor said she ‘wants’ to do something for Goans:
well Special Status is the only thing we can think of.
R Fernandes, Margao
