Yesterday’s (dated 02.04.20) Herald on its front page said that our CM advocates strong punishment for Markaz organisers, attendees, in Delhi. This was the large gathering gathered at their religious place a few days back without caring for the danger now looming over the heads of everybody in this world, the danger of Corona Virus. Attendees came as per the reports appearing even from abroad, a few of them even without proper documents and how they escaped from the eyes of security personnel is a big question mark.
When we in Goa struggling to get our daily bread properly, instead of looking after our affairs properly, our CM is after those who did mischief in Delhii when in Delhi there are enough of people to look after this topic. Secondly, where was the Delhi security and intelligence sleeping when the people gathered there in such a big number when there is curfew and even section 144? We in Goa even curtailed our certain funeral rites to avoid gathering of Catholics during the funeral these days. Our CM wants strong punishment for them to organize such a massive gathering but in Delhi they will go scot free because Delhi is Delhi and Goa is Goa. Our CM must first of all just shut his mouth and look after the people of Goa. Delhi will take care of itself. Delhi got its judiciary to mete out the proper punishment for the wrong doers there. Outsiders got no right to encroach in their area and system.
Now the major concern for us including to our CM is to find out whereabouts of some attendees in Delhi who afterward came to Goa? They may carry the virus from Delhi gathering and thus they will spread it in Goa. This is the major concnern for which we must all do our best to locate them. What type of people are they and what is the comment of the religious chief of that gathering? The government of India must tell them sternly not to take law into their own hands. India is not their fathers’ property to do what they want to do.
A.Veronica Fernandes.