Some of my best friends
are in the BJP camp and one of them a current MLA asked me, whom I will support in
the coming election. When I said definitely not for your party, he
questioned me, “why?”. Then I asked him
why should I support BJP and you in particular when you voted in the Assembly
in demoting the mighty Coconut Tree?
Besides, I told him that your party has gone against all the promises given to us
in the last election. Then I asked him,
where is Special Status for Goa? Why
sinful Casinos are not evicted from Goa?
Why minorities are psychologically disturbed with a feeling that they
are a unwanted? Then I asked him you
being a minority community MLA, why have
you blindly supported the government in each and every wrong decision of your
party including to demote Coconut Tree?
For all my queries he
replied saying, since “I am a party man,
I have to abide by the party’s decisions”. For this I replied to him saying that it was
we the voters who got you elected to act according to our requirements. Besides, you have your own moral obligations
to oppose what is bad for Goa. Being a
party man does not absolve you from observing certain obligations even if they
go against your party because your party has already proved to be anti-Goan by
going against all the promises it gave earlier.
Then I told him that it is not your party that got you elected, it is we
the voters who got you elected though the
party gave you the ticket to contest the election.
What damage the Congress
party has not done for Goa during its long tenure the BJP has done in the short
tenure and if it is given further mandate, BJP will extinguish Goa from the Map
and Goans from its land. Hence, it is
imperative to bring about a change in
the government peacefully thru ballot and not thru bullet.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.
