Re: [IAC#RG] IN GOA EVERY CASINO IS AN ATM FOR THE BJP

Dear Mr. Rodrigues

Are you talking about that party which openly accepts they are
two-faced forked tongued double dealing 'jumla' scam artists who never
wanted India to be independent from foreign rule?

or,

about the mafia party which originally licenced the casinos but is now
feigning that they don't know who let the dogs in and who all actually
connived in passing The Goa Public Gambling Act 1976 amendments in the
1990s ? (NB: I recall it was Congress's CMs - RS Naik and PS Rane who
passed those 2 brazen amendments in 1992 onwards).

Is it also high time there is a national moral movement for
governments which ban / prohibt / criminalise all major forms of vice
eg. drugs, gambling, liquor, brothels, tobacco, gutka etc and forgo
the revenues from these which allow these bloated governments to carry
on after making their populations into addicts ?

Some morally inclined people, who met me a few days back, go a step
further to ask that declared registered addicts to these vices should
be given very limited / rationed supplies by the State with the
proviso that they will not be allowed to vote until 2 years after they
get de-addicted.

Sarbajit Roy

On 7/9/16, Aires Rodrigues <airesrodrigues1@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the number of Casinos escalating there needs to be now a State wide
> vigorous agitation against this social menace. Other states have been smart
> enough to have kept them at bay, while only Goa has permitted both land
> casinos
> as well as offshore ones. And with political blessings they are operating
> unmonitored and unregulated with even the required Gaming Commissioner not
> in place.
>
> While as the Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar had vociferously
> branded Casinos as a "social evil" and had called them "dens of vice".
> While spearheading that agitation against Casinos, Manohar Parrikar had
> vowed to make sure that all Casinos were thrown out of Goa if the BJP came
> to power. But in a dramatic U turn in March 2012 after usurping power, the
> BJP has gone all out to promote, shield and increase the number of Casinos
> in the name of promoting Tourism. Goa has been always a known tourist
> destination without being converted into a Las Vegas. Due to lack of vision
> and sheer greed of those in power, Goa's Tourism industry is today in
> shambles and dire straits with quality and high-end Tourists keeping away
> from venturing in what was one's the Paradise of the East.
>
> Manohar Parrikar as the Chief Minister while branding the revenue from
> Casinos as "bad" money had declared in the Goa Legislative Assembly that
> the revenue from Casinos would be kept in a separate account and utilized
> only on homes for the aged and those suffering from Alzheimer's. On that
> revenue earned by the government from Casinos, Manohar Parrikar had firmly
> stated "We don't want to use that money to buy computers for students. We
> don't need that money in the budget". Addressing the Goa Legislative
> Assembly on 7th August 2012, the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had
> also categorically and confidently stated that he did not require the
> revenue from Casinos for Goa's developmental works.
>
> On 10th October 2013 the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had assured
> the Goa Legislative Assembly that all the Casinos would be removed out of
> the River Mandovi by September 2015. Infact the Casinos are meant to be off
> shore and that is where they should be asked to operate from. It cannot be
> the government's burden to unearth a location for the Casinos to relocate.
> With the tacit support of the government, in contravention of law the
> Casinos continue afloat in the River Mandovi. Does the government have to
> be told the definition of off shore?
>
> Ironically the RSS which sets and gears the agenda for the BJP is known to
> be against gambling but their now silence on Casinos is deafening. The BJP
> has fallen in passionate love with the Casino brigade who are now getting
> the government's abundant patronage and overwhelming support. For the
> dismal number of jobs created for Goans by Casinos, the overall damage that
> is being inflicted to the State is irreversible. While the BJP is feasting
> and making merry with the abundant moolah flowing from the Casinos, Goa has
> sadly become the country's gambling hub with the allied vices of
> Prostitution and the Narcotics trade also flourishing by the day while the
> Crime rate is on a steep rise. So, for Goa to remain afloat the Casinos
> must sink. And faster it happens it would be better for Goa and Goans.
>
>
>
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