This is Azad Maidan, Panjim
where you can notice nothing but the shame of Goa where the Goa government is
totally blind and deaf to the grievances of our Mothers and Sisters who are on
Hunger Strike since last 39 days. Their pleas and cries are gone unoticed
because Sports Minister true to his own revengeful self has refused to show any
sympathy and compassion to them. These
women from the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs are denied of the human
rights of employment from the DSYA and in their places as per my information are
engaged new ones.
Hence, they are on Hunger Strike since last so many days.
Four of them
are on “Fast Unto Death”, very often they fall sick there needing urgent
medical treatment, one or two of them were taken to Hospital where they were
admitted even to the Intensive Care Unit.
Even their small children are falling sick due to the shocking state of
their mothers. Do the concerned Minister and those running the government
machinery have mothers, wives and sisters?
How they would feel seeing them fasting sleeping on the floor at Azad
Maidan?
Azad Maidan today
Why the Goa government and
the concerned department closing their
eyes to the pleas of these striking women?
Why the MLA’s now shouting, howling, fighting and even some of them barking like dogs in the Assembly cannot
see their plight and raise this issue in the Assembly with the concerned
Minister to get the clear reply from him? Why the local media not raising this
issue forcefully? And where are our Tiatrists?
Why they cannot raise this issue from the Stage? Are they not obligated to fight for justice
for the weak ?
A.Veronica Fernandes.
