Bill Clinton of USA along with his vice
Presidential candidate was contesting the election against the then President
George Bush Sr. who was fresh from the
victory in the Gulf war for the liberation of Kuwait. Clinton was the first
Scholar President of US and less knowledgeable in the intricacies of the modern
war while Bush was an Air Force Pilot besides expert in the foreign affairs.
While campaigning for his re-election, Bush by ignoring certain decorum stooped
so low that he even forgot the civilized manners and discipline normally
associated in American electioneering and started using indecent words against
his opponent. During one particular election speech he said referring to his
Dog: “My Dog Milley got better knowledge of foreign affairs than both these
bloody Bhozos”.
Though Clinton and his colleague
were inexperienced but it was not right on the part of Bush to humiliate them thus
though what he said was right because American administration cannot be
entrusted into the hands of raw people. Why American only, even our Goan
political administration we cannot entrust into the hands of raw kids in the
Legislatures, some of whom on the strength of the surnames and care-of of their
dead fathers are demanding election tickets for them while others are pushed
forward by their coterie to get better benefits for them.
Without experiencing
their grassroots level service for their
parties and for the benefit of the society, how can we judge the potential of
these raw candidates? Some of these “Kalche Porche Potte” who don’t know the real
“abc” of State political administration they will not do anything good for the
society. For such immature kids people must be careful because power in their
hands they will surely misuse it to any extent. People must avoid giving power
into their hands otherwise they will or at least most of them acting like “Lapitt”
commit the acts of “Narvenkakrism” because their expertise in this field is the
best.
I cannot understand what
these kids and widows think of themselves the moment their fathers die and
wives of those late husbands? They should not think we are a Monarchy or
Sheikhdom, we have our separate system where every candidate must indicate his
ability before going to the voters for the voters to get convinced that their
candidates are capable to shoulder their responsibilities once they are
elected. Winability thru public sympathy because of the dead fathers and
husbands should not be the criteria otherwise our Legislature will be filled
with these stupid unfit Legislators. In this way, will we build our nation and
Goa?
A.Veronica Fernandes.
