Very shortly we will have Panchayat election
in Goa. Due to unwanted excess influx of
non-Goans into Goa mainly the migrants and other low grade Ghantis who are
selling their votes to any candidate paying them the good amount, there is a
big problem for Goa and Goans. It is this class of Bharati people who are a
botheration in Goa. They have no
interest in Goa and Goans, their interest is only in getting maximum benefit of Goa
and Goans.
If tomorrow anything goes wrong for them, they will run away from
Goa to their States. In this way so many
of them fled to their States after committing unwanted crimes and robberies.
Once they go we don’t have records of their residential addresses back at their
homes to trace them. Our local Panchyats
have not offered any solution to trace and track them. They give them all the documents to reside in
our localities to get the benefits of their votes.
While they are given voting rights in
Goa, was it found out that their names in their localities back at homes in
their States are deleted? I understand
many of them are dual voters, they vote in Goa as well as in their home States.
Whose job is this to keep a check on this fraud committed by some
migrants?
I understand in my village in
Candolim at Araddy Vaddo which is made famous by the local Panchayat by facilitating
them to get all the facilities to have this as permanent place for them to
live, there are migrants voting at two places. In the forthcoming Panchayat
election they will vote in Goa and when the similar election comes in their
States from where they came, they will go back there and vote.
This has to be stopped. But by whom? I don’t think because concerned authority and
concerned persons are not interested in putting an end to this electoral fraud
because they themselves are the beneficiaries of the votes who vote twice. The
local politicians will surely utilize them in the coming election to buy their
votes as they did in the last Assembly election where according to one source
bales of currency Notes paid to the migrant voters to get their votes.
In view of this, those who are
capable to fight against this menace must come forward and thru legal means
halt this double voting system.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
