NT Reporter
Panaji
The Adivasi wing of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) has submitted a memorandum to the President Droupadi Murmu demanding a Presidential inquiry commission to investigate “tribal atrocities, land dispossession, and misuse of laws in Goa.”
They have also demanded a directive to the Election Commission of India for implementing political reservation for Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the state.
“We have submitted a memorandum to the President, drawing urgent attention to the rising atrocities, land displacement, and systemic denial of constitutional rights faced by the Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities of Goa,” said GPCC Adivasi wing chairman Ramkrishna
Jalmi.
Jalmi alleged that the BJP’s calculated policies and misuse of state machinery are “paving the way for a repeat of Manipur-like violence in Goa.”
“If the BJP continues to bulldoze tribal rights in Goa, the Adivasi Congress will launch a mass agitation across all talukas. We will not allow our forests, land, and future to be auctioned off to builders and cronies,” said Jalmi during a press conference at the Congress House on Wednesday.
The memorandum also calls for the implementation of the Forest Rights Act and Scheduled Area Notification in Goa, withdrawal of all “false cases” against tribal activists, and legal protection for tribal whistleblowers. It further demands strengthening the Goa Tenancy Act and Mundkar Act, and setting up fast-track tribunals to resolve tenancy-related disputes.
