To Goanet - Why is the Goan media still devoting column-inches to what this charlatan Dr. Oscar Rebello has to say? After he has confessed in his own words to collaborating with the govt thus betraying the Save Goa movement?
Ashwin Tombat and Derek Almeida - when are you two fellows going to write an editorial about this? The confession was buried in Tombat's paper. How come Tombat has nothing to say about it? This is HUGE - the leader of a movement who was proclaiming it was "apolitical" now tells us that he was "dancing footsie" with Digambar Kamat's govt. r Soter D'Souza wrote: >Were we wrong when we criticised Dr. >Oscar Rebello and the GBA? Definitely not. Here is the truth directly from the >horse's mouth published two days after christmas in a local daily. > >Dr. Oscar says; >"Secondly, all the >functions of the gram sabha are not explained to the villagers properly. >While, we were members on the Task Force for Regional Plan, we had been >requesting them to focus on social-economic planning and not on land use >planning. We wanted villagers to conform to whatever functions gram sabhas >were >supposed to do as envisaged in the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments in >the Goa Panchayat Raj Act." >Since when has Dr. Oscar Rebello >become an expert on the 73rd and 74th Constitution Amendment? Villagers will >do >the socio-economic planning and Goa's land use planning will be done by >UP-ites, >Delhi-ites, Kanadigas, Keralites, jaitleys, Ramanis, Prasads and the rest of >the >migrants? What a joke? I wonder whether this task force expert from >GBA had the time to closely read Part IX of the Constitution to >understand it's letter and spirit. Has Dr. Oscar the guts to defend his >rubbish before Gram Sabha members? Even supposing the Gram Sabhas did not >have the powers, Dr. Oscar should have been pressing for the devolution of >powers. But he prefers to tow the line taken by real estate's legal > consultants without bothering to udnerstand the law. Could Dr. >oscar point out which law does not give the rights to the Gram Sabhas to >discuss >land use planning? This is what I meant about GBA's free size knickers. Truth >ultimately prevails. > >-soter