PANAJI: MGP on Monday condemned the passing of Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill, 2021, and said that this government wants to help everyone other than the Bhumiputras through the bill. MGP demanded that the government withdraw the bill.
The people of Goa should reject this government and the person behind the bill should resign, MGP’s Ramkrishna Dhavalikar said. He said that the state government should purchase land from comunidades and give it to the people. Dhavalikar said that by using the name Bhumiputra Adhikarini for the bill, the government has insulted the people of Goa.
He said that the opposition had demanded that the bill should be sent to a select committee and urged the government to call a special session to discuss and pass the bill.
Dhavalikar said that chief minister Pramod Sawant doesn’t understand the meaning of Bhumiputra. “The government wants to help Bhumiputra of other states in Goa, when they have rights in their states,” he said.
Dhavalikar said that someone will challenge the bill in court. He said that the way the government is functioning, it is dangerous for the people of the state.
MGP also demanded that the state government should immediately take up construction of houses which were destroyed in the floods. Dhavalikar said that if the government does not construct houses immediately, then the people should not allow the government to construct their houses. “If MGP forms the government, we will construct the houses destroyed in floods,” he said.
The state assembly on Friday passed the Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill, 2021, which allows the state to give the self-occupied dweller of a small housing unit ownership rights so as to enable him to live with dignity and self-respect and exercise his right to life.
The chief minister had said that the bill for regularisation of houses was passed during the previous tenure of the BJP government following which some people became owners of the house they were dwelling in.
