Almost in every village, there is a ”lutt” from the candidates to contest
the forthcoming Panchyat Election. There
are so many candidates in this “lutt” whose track records of doing good for the
people in their own localities are very poor, they don’t do any social work
because they don’t like to help others, they don’t like to sacrifice even one
minute and even one paisa for the sake of others and on top of it they want to be the official custodians of our localities.
When this is the case, how these candidates crave for the votes of the
people and why people will vote for such selfish candidates? I cannot understand how these candidates take
the voters for granted!! For the voters
to vote for a particular candidate, that particular candidate must give an
impression to the voters that he is capable of doing good to the people, based
on his past record of helpfulness in his locality for the locals. Many of our
candidates whose work in the service of the people is zero have got no right to
contest the election because for such selfish candidates people do not vote and
in fact they should not vote for such people. How can one accept that one Mr. X, the candidate, will work for the good of the society when he did nothing and neither got evidence to show that he did something?
In the first Panchayat election in Goa immediately after the conquest of
Goa by Bharat, most of the Christian Brahmin Bhattkars were totally knocked out
by their low grade opponents, even by their Mundkars because most of these Brahmin
Bhattkars were known not to do anything good to their Mundkars and subordinates. This was the election fought on the principle
of Bhattkars against Munddkars and Bamonn against non-Bamonn. People in that election opposed the top
feudality because this feudality failed to do much good to the lower strata of
the people. It is not possible to gain the goodwill of the voters and especially
of the commoners to get their votes without doing anything good to them and to
the society. If you are not even ready
to give a simple smile to others even though that smile will cost you nothing,
then how you expect the voters and people to support you? Contribute something
for the cause of society and community and then expect good response from the
voters.
Then there is a group of people who come under the umbrella of their
panels to fight this election. They are mostly all old faces graduated in gaining expertise in looting the village Panchayats
by doing chicanery and corruption. Because of their long term experience as
Panchas and Sarpanchas they gained the mastery of making money thru looting the
locals by way of extorting bribe from the public. Their urge and taste for Panchayat politics is
so great that without being its members they cannot survive. For this reason, they are contesting the
Panchayat elections again and again not to serve the village and the locals but
to fill their pockets. How much such people served our villages? Everybody knows this. All the people below my nose knows this. The little they do is to get commission for them because they have their "cuts". These are the CHORS who are responsible for robbing our
villages and on top of it they are shamelessly moving in society with their
collar high. People should vote them out
in the coming election otherwise they will destroy our villages.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim.
