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OCI notification will finish Goans working abroad: Congress

Panaji, Mar 7 (UNI) The Congress in Goa on Sunday termed the OCI notification issued by the Union Home Ministry draconian and claimed that the notification would finish the hard working Goans working abroad.
Addressing a press conference at party state headquarters in the city, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Girish Chodankar said, ''The BJP government since coming to power is all out to sell Goa to crony capitalists friends of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the three linear projects, Railway Double Tracking and Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) and now the draconian OCI notification issued by the Modi Governments Home Ministry will finish the hard working Goans working abroad.''
Slamming the BJP-run Union Ministry of Home Affairs’ notification of March 4, 2021, that has altered the status of Overseas Citizens of India (including Non-Resident Goans), he said the notification issued under Section 7B of the Citizenship Act, 1955, superseded three earlier notifications issued during the UPA Government’s time and laid down the rights of the OCIs.
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