{"id":104015,"date":"2025-07-09T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=104015"},"modified":"2025-07-09T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:02:00","slug":"adivasi-congress-esposes-bjps-anti-tribal-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=104015","title":{"rendered":"Adivasi Congress esposes BJP’s Anti-Tribal agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : The Adivasi Congress Goa has submitted a detailed memorandum to the Hon\u2019ble President of India, drawing urgent attention to the worsening atrocities, land displacement, and systemic denial of constitutional rights faced by the Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities of Goa. The memorandum also exposes the BJP government\u2019s divisive and exploitative agenda, which is rapidly pushing tribals to the margins of society.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chairman Ramkrishna Jalmi, in the memorandum, has warned that the BJP\u2019s calculated policies and misuse of state machinery are \u201cpaving the way for a repeat of Manipur-like violence in Goa.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATIONAL LEVEL ATROCITIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Rape and Murder of a Tribal Woman in Madhya Pradesh (23 May 2025) \u2013 A brutal act reflecting the state\u2019s failure to protect tribal women.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sexual Assaults in Manipur \u2013 Shameful stripping of tribal women and engineered conflict between tribal groups has exposed BJP\u2019s utter failure to maintain law and order and safeguard Adivasi lives.<\/p>\n

The Adivasi Congress Goa has also sent letters to the Collector, North Goa, and Dy. Collector of South Goa appealing for protection of Adivasi and tribal rights in Goa and implementation of \u00a0affirmative action both in letter as well as spirit. It also called for an immediate end to ongoing attempts to divide the tribal community on the basis of religion. The letter highlighted concrete instances of injustice and attempts to stifle the voices and rights of the community in Goa.<\/p>\n

DIVISIVE AGENDA IN GOA:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Adivasi Congress demanded a total ban on groups like the \u201cJanjyati Suraksha Manch Goa\u201d which are openly promoting religious discrimination by demanding delisting of Christian Gawadas from the ST list thus threatening tribal unity and constitutional status<\/p>\n

DISPLACEMENT & LAND GRABBING SPONSORED BY THE STATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Khandepar Bandhara Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n

o Launched without Gram Sabha approval, based on fraudulent documentation.<\/p>\n

o Used police and Section 144 to forcibly enter tribal lands.<\/p>\n

o Adivasi homes and ecology were under threat until public outrage forced its cancellation.<\/p>\n

o BJP tried to drown tribal voices with water and bulldozers.<\/p>\n

2. IIT Project at Melauli:<\/strong><\/p>\n

o Police lathi-charged tribal women and youth protesting against land acquisition.<\/p>\n

o The project was scrapped only after public resistance \u2013 not due to any conscience from the ruling regime.<\/p>\n

3. Mega Housing Project at Karapur Sankali :\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Vasanti Rama Salelkar, a woman belonging to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) community and a lawful tenant of the property bearing Survey Nos. 202\/0 and 173\/45 situated in Karapur village, Bicholim Taluka, Goa, persistent acts of atrocities, threats, harassment, illegal dispossession attempts, and destruction of property perpetrated against her by a group of individuals in gross violation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and my constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

STRUCTURAL INJUSTICES & VIOLATIONS IN GOA:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. No Political Reservation for STs in Goa since 2003 \u2013 Even after notification, BJP has failed to implement constitutional Article 332. The so-called \u201cReadjustment Bill 2024\u201d is just eyewash without intent.<\/p>\n

2. Scheduled Area Not Notified under Fifth Schedule \u2013 Allowing mining and real estate interests to loot tribal land.<\/p>\n

3. Forest Rights Act not implemented \u2013 Over 9,500 claims pending, no CFR rights granted.<\/p>\n

4. Diversion of TSP\/DMF Funds \u2013 \u20b92,500 crore meant for tribal welfare is being looted by departments, only \u20b9300\u2013\u20b9400 crore actually spent.<\/p>\n

5. ST Backlog in Government Jobs \u2013 Reservations ignored, rosters manipulated.<\/p>\n

6. False Cases on Tribal Leaders \u2013 Activists like Ravindra Velip, Dr. Sameer Velip, and others targeted with false FIRs.<\/p>\n

7. TAC Not Properly Formed \u2013 Interim body formed without any ST community reps.<\/p>\n

TENANCY & MUNDKAR RIGHTS DESTROYED:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BJP has quietly diluted the Goa Tenancy and Mundkar Acts, enabling landlords and PDAs to evict tribal families.\u2028Thousands are still awaiting Sanads, while land conversions under Section 39A (formerly 16B) are pushing STs off ancestral lands.<\/p>\n

DEMANDS RAISED IN THE MEMORANDUM:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Immediate ban on Janjyati Suraksha Manch and similar communal organizations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ordinance to reserve 4 ST seats in the Goa Legislative Assembly before the 2027 election.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Notification of Scheduled Areas under Article 244(1).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fast-track approval of Forest Rights claims and tenancy Sanads.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Presidential Commission of Inquiry into all tribal atrocities and land dispossession.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Audit of TSP and DMF Funds for the last 5 years.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Withdrawal of false criminal cases against ST leaders and activists.<\/p>\n

ADIVASI CONGRESS WARNS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf 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,\u201d said Ramkrishna Jalmi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : The Adivasi Congress Goa has submitted a detailed memorandum to the Hon\u2019ble President of India, drawing urgent attention to the worsening atrocities, land displacement, and systemic denial of constitutional rights faced by the Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities of Goa. The memorandum also exposes the BJP government\u2019s divisive and exploitative agenda, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":104016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-104015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104015","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=104015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104017,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104015\/revisions\/104017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}