BJP opposes amendment to Land Acquisition Act

NT NETWORK
Posted on 2009-03-04
PANAJI - Stating that the ordinance promulgated by the Digambar Kamat-led government on March 2, to further amend the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act 1 of 1894) is nothing but an act of protecting a part of the Cidade de Goa resort from being demolished vide a Supreme Court judgement, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that the present state government is not for aam aadmi but for khaas aadmi.
Strongly coming out against the ordinance, the BJP said, “The people of Goa should now understand that the ‘Five Star’ government led by the Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat will go to any extent for providing relief to the rich and the influential, but would turn a blind eye, if the poor and the marginalised suffer in this state.”
“The apathy of the Digambar Kamat government towards the needy Goan people was clearly visible when it allowed the Corporation of the City of Panaji to demolish 88 gaddas around the city and showed no inclination to promulgate an ordinance to save the livelihood of the gadda owners,” a press note released by the state BJP spokesperson, Mr Govind Parvatkar said, adding that the government seems to be totally ignorant about the plight of the fishermen residing along the state coastline, who have been issued notices by the respective village panchayats for demolishing their age-old houses. “A government, which goes to any level to protect a single five-star hotel, but has no care about 70,000 fisher folk about to lose their houses, has no moral right to continue,” the BJP observed, appealing to the people to teach Congress party, a fitting lesson during the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.