ARE CIVIL SERVANTS IN GOA SLAVES OF CHIEF MINISTER PARRIKAR AND HIS BJP PARTY?

BUREAUCRACY IN GOA HAS GONE FOR A TOSS

By Aires Rodrigues

The bureaucracy should have been independent and impartial but sadly in Goa it is not living up to this reputation. The bureaucrats in Goa have totally surrendered to the political rot. The Chief Secretary who heads the bureaucracy should have led by example and kept the administration free from political interference. But the current incumbent Mr. B. Vijayan has been shamelessly bending and bowing all over, while signing on the dotted line at the dictates of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. This not only sets a bad trend, but will also expose the bureaucrats to criminal prosecution for intentionally misleading the Government on vital matters.

Government employees cannot be directly or directly engaging themselves or participating in any work pertaining to any political party. At the two day BJP conclave in Goa held at the Marriott last weekend, so many State employees including the official staff of the Chief Minister were assigned various chores at this political party meet. On 13th Dec last year, the entire bureaucracy led by Chief Secretary Vijayan queued up at the BJP office in Panaji to greet Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on his birthday. This was totally out of place because no government servant should ever have an occasion to visit an office of a political party. T he Conduct Rules also prohibits such acts. They could have wished the Chief Minister or even kissed his feet in his office at the Secretariat or his official residence.

Over the years we have seen successive governments using bureaucrats as pawns in their political games, but the situation has reached a flash point under this current one man regime. And it is precisely to achieve his nefarious ends, that Manohar Parrikar has been crying hoarse that incompetent officers are being sent by the Central Government to the State, since he wants officers who do not advise nor question, but just shut up and listen.

We need to stem the rot over this interdependent chronic relationship that exists between Ministers and civil servants. May be its time the parameters of the relationship between ministers and civil servants is made abundantly clear by having a code of conduct for bureaucrats and a code of ethics for ministers which ensures a neutral relationship between a minister and civil servants. These codes of conduct and ethics should clearly outline the division of responsibility between the ministers and civil servants with the fundamental focus being on the political neutrality and impartiality of civil servants preserved at all costs. The bureaucrats in Goa are the new caged parrots.

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NARENDRA MODI - BJP AND CONFUSION IN BJP.

The elevation of Narendra Modi to the position of chief of BJP’s election campaign is a step forward for the demolition of BJP in the next general election. Elevating Modi to that position means openly disclosing the bankruptcy in BJP rank of having no good leader to shoulder that responsibility. Some in BJP rank including our Parrikar feel Modi is the saviour of the country now. Modi is nothing but a butcher under whose leadership a decade back poor Muslims were ruthlessly massacred in Gujarat. Just because he won the election for BJP in Gujarat for 3 times that does not mean he is the leader of national stature. Modi is only a regional leader with parochial thoughts who can swim only in Gujarat and not at all India level. All India level is a big ocean where Modi will never be able to swim.

By raising Modi to the pedestal in BJP rank Congress chances of coming back to power at all India level are brightened. Victory for Congress at all India level was almost assured on silver platter because it is a very good opportunity for the anti-BJP forces to dump Modi in the gutter by citing the atrocities Modi committed on minority community Muslim and making this subject as a big election issue. Knowing his ruthless atrocities against Muslims, I think no member of minority communities will elect his BJP. He can take Gujarat for granted but surely not other parts of India. And if by chance he is appointed as Premier, Indians will have to put their heads down in shame for having such a rowdy man as premier. At international level he will be a big failure and globally India’s image will also suffer.

I as a Christian am afraid to vote for BJP where Modi is in a top position. Modi means massacre and amputation of the minorities in India. Just because he is good for Gujarat that does not mean he is good for India. Because of his ruthlessness against minorities in India he was banned from entering into the West. It will be a big shame for Indians to be under his leadership. In Gujarat under Modi's leadership people are not having bath in Milk. Still due to unemployment in Gujarat many Gujaratis are coming to Kuwait for low grade jobs. Modi has not created a Heaven in Gujarat. He is just an ordinary leader with Goebellian art of fooling the masses.

His main purpose to come to the top position is to demolish Congress. I heard many speeches he delivered but in all his speeches he vomited fire against Congress. No doubt Congress has to be punished because many of the India’s ills are the doings of Congress but his mind and tongue should not be focussed on Congress only. So far he has not disclosed his plan how the poverty in India will be finished. He has not told how he will finish unemployment in India. So far he never mentioned how he will bring changes in India and uproot corruption from Indian soil.

According to my assessment, if Modi and his BJP comes to power, BJP men will do worst than Congressmen by imbibing all the bad habits and feudality of Congress. Like Congressmen, BJP will never identify themselves with the masses. They will behave and live like Maharajas exactly the way Congressmen are doing. During the Goa BJP meet there was chartered Plane for its president Rajnath to take him to Delhi. What a pompous show at the cost of taxpayers’ money!! Parrikar also frittered away public money by releasing government advertisement for this meet. This Goa meet was the private affairs of BJP where public money should not be spent but Parrikar and his BJP spent without caring for anything. From here one can visualise what harm BJP will do if they come to power.

Parrikar may be thinking the entire Goa is for his BJP. No, the entire Goa was for destroying the family Raj system in Goan politics and the entire Goa was all for destroying Congress in Goa. Taking this view into consideration, Goa voted out Congress and in the bargain Parrikar’s BJP got elected. In the next election Parrikar and his BJP will be taught heir lesson well.

The meeting of BJP in Panaji was a great failure and this fact can be accepted from the manner some of the top BJP leaders abstained from taking part in this meet. There was heavy opposition from the senior leaders to elevate Modi and the crack that appeared now will be magnified during the coming election. Advani the seniormost BJP leader has already fired a salvo by submitting his resignation. To destroy Modi now you don’t need Congress and other opponents but the opponents living in the BJP only will destroy BJP. The enemy of BJP is now residing within itself only. The innocent blood of those who were killed in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition by BJP and those of Gujarat under BJP's Modi will never allow BJP to live in peace. Confusion in BJP is the punishment of God for BJP.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.