{"id":102817,"date":"2025-05-12T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=102817"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:40:50","slug":"bjp-made-panaji-a-sin-city-with-casinos-now-eyeing-villages-yuri-alemao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=102817","title":{"rendered":"BJP made Panaji a sin city with casinos, now eyeing villages : Yuri Alemao"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":100\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":vu\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar : Lamenting that BJP Government has made Panaji a sin city by encouraging casinos, Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Monday said that it is now spreading that virus to villages by selling agricultural land to casinos.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Cuncolim MLA was reacting to the Government&#8217;s move of giving 3.33 Lakh sq meter of notified Command Area Development Authority (CADA) land to Delta Corp Ltd for setting up of \u201cIntegrated Resort Development Project\u201d at Dhargal in Pernem.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cBJP Government which promised doubling farmer\u2019s income has snatched land from them and has given it to Casinos at Dhargal. I condemn the government&#8217;s move of denotifying farmland for use of casino,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He said that BJP Govt has failed to shift the casinos from Mandovi and now facilitating Dalta to come up in villages clearly shows that this government is encouraging corruption and casinos.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cBJP has made Panaji a sin city by giving extensions to casinos and inviting new casinos in Mandovi river. Now it is eyeing villages to spoil them. We, locals and people of Goa, should unitedly fight against this menace of selling land to crony capitalist,\u201d Alemao said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He said that the BJP Government promised doubling farmer\u2019s income, but has snatched cultivation land from them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cAfter turning Mandovi into gambling zone, now this corrupt government is turning our villages into gambling zones. Already there is a mess of drugs in Goa, which has reached villages and now casinos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cDhargal and surrounding villages rely on traditional livelihoods and they have protected the social fabric. Fostering Casinos in these areas by Govt will only damage this social fabric and culture,\u201d Congress leader Alemao said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cBJP has put Goa on fast track sale and this will spoil the future of our youths. Denotifying this land for commercial use threatens water security, agricultural sustainability, and biodiversity. Government should scrap this decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : Lamenting that BJP Government has made Panaji a sin city by encouraging casinos, Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Monday said that it is now spreading that virus to villages by selling agricultural land to casinos.\u00a0 Cuncolim MLA was reacting to the Government&#8217;s move of giving 3.33 Lakh sq meter of notified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":97581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-102817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102819,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102817\/revisions\/102819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}