CANACONA
An all-caste, all-community and all-religion voters’ meeting in Canacona on Sunday demanded that the implementation of political reservation for the Scheduled Tribe (ST) community be deferred until the completion of the Census and the subsequent delimitation exercise.
The demand was made at a well-attended meeting convened to discuss the government’s move to introduce political reservation for the ST community ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections in Goa.
Speaker after speaker argued that implementing political reservation based on nearly two-decade-old Census data would cause injustice to other communities. The meeting, attended by former Canacona MLA Vijay Poi Khot and several prominent local leaders, unanimously adopted three resolutions.
The gathering resolved that the Goa government’s decision to grant political reservation to the ST community should be kept in abeyance until the completion of the Census and the subsequent delimitation process. It further stated that any decision on caste-based political reservation should be taken only after consultations with all political parties and with the concurrence of voters from other communities.
