New Delhi, November 27 (Agencies): The ambush on the Governor of Goa SC Jamir last Saturday by suspected insurgents in Nagaland was raised in the Parliament this evening with the South Goa Member of Parliament Francis Sardinha taking it up at the discussion hour on Matters of Urgent Public Importance.
In his maiden speech in the Parliament after his election to the Lok Sabha from South Goa Constituency in the October 30 bye polls, Sardinha expressed dismay that a Governor could be attacked in the manner of which the Goa Governor SC Jamir was ambushed the other day and appealed to the Government to ensure that the Governor is safe in his own country.
The Governor of Goa has been barred from entering Nagaland by an insurgent group and the silence of both the State Government and the Central Government, raises some interesting Constitutional implications, he said.
“Jamir, being the Constitutional head of a State, is the representative of the President of India. Can any representative of the President of India or any bonafide citizen for that matter, of the country be barred from entering any other Indian State, and that too, by an insurgent group,” he questioned.
Narrating the sequence of events, Sardinha said, “on November 24, 2007, the Governor’s convoy was ambushed reportedly by the NSCN (IM). Four strategically planted explosives went off a few feet away from his car as his convoy passed by. This was followed by a fusillade of gunfire from above the road. A few 2-inch mortars also exploded near his vehicle. Had these explosives exploded as planned by the insurgents, we would be gathered here paying obituaries to His Excellency the Governor of Goa…”
“The silence of the Central Government on this dastardly attack on the Governor of Goa is sending shivers up the spine of nationalists in the country. It is not only an attack on SC Jamir, but it is an attack on the Constitutional position that he holds.
