Candolim Panchayat held
its Gramsabah Meeting on Sunday, 16th of this month in the morning
starting at 11.00 while scheduled time was 10.30 AM. After my return to Goa it
was a rare opportunity for me to witness such a meet which looked more like a
Fish Market where there was no system nor was discipline, the Sarpanch was unable
to maintain her control over the proceedings.
It looked she finds this job very hard and as time goes it will be more tedious.
She was relying more on her colleague rather on her own knowledge.
Surprisingly, the defeated
ex - MLA Agnelo Fernandes yet again allowed to occupy the seat at the dais
along with all the elected representatives.
This contravenes the rule and how the Secretary and BDO representative
kept their silence was a question mark.
Worst part was that this same Agnelo was participating in the
deliberations by answering questions posed to the Chair as if he was a member
of the elected body and a spokesman of the Panchayat. Sarpanch brings him as a Chief Guest to
distribute the prizes for the students and allows him to take law into his own
hands.
Twice earlier he was
humiliated by two citizens for occupying the seat at the dais and moreover the
Sarpanch is acting like his Chamcha without any shame or respect for rule. Agnelo must know that because of such
arrogant acts he was defeated in the last election. When he is not an elected member of Panchayat,
he got no business nor right to act like the boss of the Panchayat. Panchayat is not his property neither
of the Sarpanch. He is not owning the Candolim Panchayat nor the Sarpanch owns. Hence, the Sarpanch is hereby warned not to overstep
her authority. She must stop inviting only
Agnelo for distributing the prizes. There is nobody other than Agnelo in the village? Is it the monopoly of Agnelo only always to
come as chief guest to distribute the prizes and thereby poke his nose as
spokesman of the Panchayat? This is the
quality of Congressmen and because of this low quality, Congress lost the last election
including Agnelo Fernandes which fate is again looming over him.
Mickey Fernandes was very
vocal and he even reprimanded the Panchayat on many contentious issues
including the illegal type of construction in Araddy where there is no
indication on the under construction building of the required details saying it
is legal.
On the Casino issue,
the house objected to allow docking of Casinos at Aguada coast and also decided
to take action on one Casino located at Dando on the land which according to
Panchayat is running illegally. If this is illegally functioning then why
Panchayat is sleeping from taking legal action?
Or is the owner of this Casino bribing the Panchayat? By the way, is there any fixed amount of
bribe to give to the Panchayat when submitting project papers for approvals?
Can anyone enlighten me on this topic? I
see the moment you become a Panchayat member, you become a lakhpoti.
Where these lakhs come from? Is it not thru taking bribes?
Regarding Garbage
menace at Araddy, Sarpanch assured the House that it will be put into order
within 6 months.
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