On last Sunday I attended the Gram Sabah Meeting in my
village In the Panchayat Compound that was also attended by the very good
number of attendees, this type of number was rarely seen in the
recent past. However, what surprised me
was this that as usual all the former
Sarpanchas and many of the ex Panchas were as usual missing. When they remain absent from attending this important Meet, they give
an impression that they are least
bothered about the village affairs while
when they were ruling our village, they were talking big - big about their
village. This type of cunning and crooks
behaviour they must stop in future. They
being the former Sarpanches and Panches, they had more responsibilities since
they are well experienced in running the local affairs. I dont know what they think of themselves,
only as elected they should attend such meetings and otherwise sleep at home? One
of the ex Sarpanchas was present but
since he was an elected member for the current term he had no choice but to
attend not only his duty that makes him obligated to attend but he is eagerly
waiting to don the colours of the Sarpanch if he gets an opportunity even thru
the back door. Because of their selfish AND REVENGEFUL nature, today in Goa Sarpanches and
other Panches are not respected. Who among them in our Panchayats in Goa is
upright and clean with the exception of very few? “Assa titlei choddse chor ani Bamtte “.
This type of dirty game is played by most of the ex
Sarpanches and Panches because they are either afraid of their sins they
committed as elected representatives or they are feeling inferior to attend
such meetings when they already enjoyed the power once. If this is correct then
they are sadly mistaken because they became somebody in our localities then it
was only because of their membership in
their respective Panchayats. Otherwise
nobody cares for them, they don’t even know to say hello to others, they are
like animals from the jungle. Good that they were very backward during the past
regime in Goa otherwise they would opt for the status of Maharajas when most of
our elected members in our local Panchayats would not even be fit to sweep the
floor of their Panchayat.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
