Although the sun has set on the election “fiesta” in Goa, the euphoriaover the defeat of the corrupt Congress is still overflowing inabundance. I certainly do not hold it against the people for going“gaga” over Parrikar and the BJP even though the acrimonious defeat ofthe Congress has certainly transcend into what looks to be anoverwhelming victory for Parrikar and the BJP and victory it is butunfortunately the battle is not been won yet, as there is a lot to bedone and I dare say it will be cake walk or even a walk in the parkfor Parrikar and his young and not so young brigade.
The supporters are still saluting the winners through the news papersand rallies and the candidates in turn salute the voters, even thosethat lost are thanking their bereaved supporters for standing by themthrough thick and thin, some have even promised to continue theirdynamic social work and come back strongly for another inning, it maysound audacious but roaches and bugs do tend to surprise us time andagain, may they all finally manage to apply the dynamics of dynamismin reality.
Goans are happy that the Congress has been smothered into the ground,as we were certainly looking for a change even though some may havetheir reservations and presumptions about Parrikar, but he deserves asecond chance, after ten years of corruption orgy that has left Goadesecrated and battered by Congress renegades. Parrikar has got hissecond chance now and he better not screw it up because Goans haveshown what they are willing to do, if pushed against the wall. So tostart with let’s give him his 100 days before we start judging him andhis intensions, for his own sake and for the sake of Goa just hope hecan get us out of this mess. Even though some Goans say that Goa isalready a lost cause, however this timely defeat of the Congress couldbe the much needed life support to the brain dead but technicallystill alive comatose, who is unknowingly still fighting for its lifeand the situation could yet be reversed.
With the first session of the freshly elected Assembly to convene injust a few days time, a five men army has been selected by Parrikar tohelp him launch his mission “zero tolerance” in Goa but even beforethe first mission has taken off, Parrikar’s choice of the crew membersfor the launch has been questioned, there are a lot of speculationsthat the security plates scamster, in the last Goa mission “corruptionfull throttle” will be made the Minister of the most lucrative and onethe most sought after Ministry, namely the PWD, as a result cynicshave already started questioning Parrikar’s tolerance levels. I surehope Parrikar will put Sudin Dhavalikar in place before he startsacting like the man from Varca. He is the one person that Parrikarwill have to watch closely.
Except for the Sidin Dhavalikar issue, Parrikar seems to have startedon the right foot and on a right note and I only hope, like a goodring master Parrikar can hold the Marciam tiger on a leash because theBJP on its own have a good healthy majority with a few independents tospare, and we can only hope that Parrikar’s mission “zero tolerance”,which is our only hope at present, will not backfire and turn into a“mission impossible” and that too a “ghost protocol” lacking insubstance as well as direction, or a mission lost in oblivion. Mr.Manohar Parrikar, Goans with bated breath await for the success ofmission “zero tolerance”. All the best !
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes.
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