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.