IT’S NOW TIME TO FULLFILL THE PROMISES MADE
By Aires Rodrigues
The people of Goa have spoken out loudly, clearly and adroitly. They have dethroned in style and fury a government which was utterly dysfunctional and embroiled in rampant corruption. Mr. Manohar Parrikar and the BJP have over the last few weeks have promised a lot and the people of Goa will want every part of that promise fulfilled and will accept no excuses. Political and alliance compulsions should be no excuse to violate the law and allow corruption to perpetuate. With a crystal clear mandate of 21, the BJP will have no excuses.
Appointing an honest, competent and knowledgeable Advocate General is the first decision the new government will have to take. It may not have been his election promise but Mr. Manohar Parrikar should definitely consider slashing the exorbitant fees currently being paid to the Advocate General and bring it on par with other states.
A clean, transparent and corrupt free administration should see the hallmark of the new government. There should be no political interference or manipulation of the bureaucracy. As mandated by the Supreme Court of India the police should be given the freedom to function independently. Mr. Manohar Parrikar should allow no illegality and govern by the rule book. He would be wise to crack the whip first on some of his party MLA’s who are involved in blatant irregularities.
Mr. Manohar Parrikar has promised that Goa would be freed from even a shred of garbage within three months. This has to be one of the priorities of the new government. A war against illegal mining has to be waged as promised. Just because some of his new elected MLA’s have direct or indirect interests in illegal mining it should not hinder Mr. Manohar Parrikar from acting tough. The government would also have to expedite the removal of what remains of the River Princess at Candolim before the ensuing monsoons. The promises of new bridges, better roads and an end to parking woes in the cities have to be fulfilled
We were also assured that government corporations would be headed by only professionals with expertise instead of rehabilitating politicians who have lost the elections or political aspirants who were declined party tickets. Infact the government should seriously considered winding up unnecessary corporations some of which were created only to accommodate politicians with a position and perks at public expense. It will be interesting to see how Mr. Parrikar lives up to one of his promises to lower the petrol prices by Rs 11.50. While in the opposition Mr. Parrikar had been harping on the removal of the off shore casinos. It needs to be seen how he gambles with this issue now.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and his Ministers should ensure that there are no brokers or agents hovering around them. Centres of power should not be used to manage and lobby for illegalities.
The people of Goa have a lot of expectations from this government which has also promised an effective Lokayukta within 100 days. If Manohar Parrikar can live upto his promises and assurances by providing a corruption free and a secular government he may be a hero. Otherwise he may turn out to be yet another villain on Goa’s political landscape and find himself at the receiving end of public fury.
Let us hope Mr. Manohar Parrikar will act as a true statesman and rise over petty party politics and secure the interest of every Goan. He had sought a mandate which the Goans have given him thereby entrusting him with the State. He should govern with a wide vision and definitely ensure that he doesn’t commit the mistakes of the past while ensuring that caste and communal politics never raises its ugly head again.
That it will have a very weak opposition in the Legislative Assembly should come as no solace to the Manohar Parrikar government. Alert citizens armed with the Right to Information Act and other laws will expose and fight against any and every illegality that this government may dare to commit.
Mr. Manohar Parrikar, let us get on with the job to save what remains of Goa. No time can be wasted on celebrations. A badly battered and bruised Goa has been grieving and in a state of mourning for too long.
March 7, 2012
R.I.P. ALEMAOS - POLITICALLY.
Well done Navelkars, well done Cuncollkars, well done Benaulkars and well done Sanguemkars.
Well done all the Saxttikars who voted out corrupt Congress candidates in the recently concluded eletion.
Navelkars you deserve highest accolades for throwing out Churchill Alemao who has been polluting political life of Goa since his involvement in the illegally formation of PDF government. Navelkars who elected Avertano Furtado are real sons and real daughters of their real fathers, they proved to be the legitimate children of their parents of Goa lover parents. They proved to be the real descendents of the great Goan parliamentarian Dr. Francis Luis Gomes who played clean politics and earned good name for Goa and Goans. By representing Navelim, Churchill Alemao corrupted the fair image of Dr. Franciso Luis Gomes.
Churchill Alemao as a human being is a very nice man, very symphatetic to the sufferings of the poor but political greed for power and money destroyed his original self. At moment I feel guilty of supporting him in Kuwait during his maiden visit to this country in late eighties whence he gained lot of prominence to embark in Goan politics. Not only me but my entire group supported him because of his enormous work he did for the cause of Konkani even by riskink his life, during Konkani Language agitation in mid eighties. By playing dirty political games for his selfish ends he hurt the feelings of the genuine Goa lover Goans.
From no where he made his daughter Valanka a social worker as if she is Mother Theresa, to get her inducted into politics just like earlier Indira Gandhi from nowhere brought her son Rajiv Gandhi into politics and made him a hero but finally he became a big zero. Now Sonia Gandhi is doing the same for her son Rahul Gandhi who is a big ZERO of Indian politics. Congress lost miserably in UP because of him. He should have committed suicide instead of shamelessly owning the responsibility for the Congress debacle in the recently concluded election.
Leave aside Churchill inducting his daughter into politics, his brother Joaquim also brought his son Yuri from nowhere by dubbing him as a dynamic social worker and implanted him into Sanguem constituency where as a foreigner like his father in Cuncollim was defeated miserably. Alemaos were rejected by their voters because they were not the sons of the constituencies they contested. Cunkollkars, Sanguemkars and Navelkars refused to accept them in their fold as their own citizens. Instead they elected their own candidates who were the real citizens of their constituencies and not ‘baddeache boil’. It is nice to note that people in Goa are become assertive of their rights and this attitude made the people to defeat Alemaos especially Churchill who was having a false opinion that he can win from anywhere in Goa. "Churchillbab, tum chintai titlem na tem". Remember what Shakesphere in Hamlet says , "there are more things in Heaven than what we dreamt".
Alemaos have fooled the people since a long time now and finally they became the victims of Devine Punishment from where thru Devine Intercession only they can regain their power back. But for this THEY WILL HAVE TO DO A LOT OF PENANCE AND RETURN THE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH TO THE POOR AS JACKEUS DID IN JERUSALEM ON THE ADVICE OF JESUS CHRIST.
Otherwise politically, R.I.P. ALEMAOS.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait..
Well done all the Saxttikars who voted out corrupt Congress candidates in the recently concluded eletion.
Navelkars you deserve highest accolades for throwing out Churchill Alemao who has been polluting political life of Goa since his involvement in the illegally formation of PDF government. Navelkars who elected Avertano Furtado are real sons and real daughters of their real fathers, they proved to be the legitimate children of their parents of Goa lover parents. They proved to be the real descendents of the great Goan parliamentarian Dr. Francis Luis Gomes who played clean politics and earned good name for Goa and Goans. By representing Navelim, Churchill Alemao corrupted the fair image of Dr. Franciso Luis Gomes.
Churchill Alemao as a human being is a very nice man, very symphatetic to the sufferings of the poor but political greed for power and money destroyed his original self. At moment I feel guilty of supporting him in Kuwait during his maiden visit to this country in late eighties whence he gained lot of prominence to embark in Goan politics. Not only me but my entire group supported him because of his enormous work he did for the cause of Konkani even by riskink his life, during Konkani Language agitation in mid eighties. By playing dirty political games for his selfish ends he hurt the feelings of the genuine Goa lover Goans.
From no where he made his daughter Valanka a social worker as if she is Mother Theresa, to get her inducted into politics just like earlier Indira Gandhi from nowhere brought her son Rajiv Gandhi into politics and made him a hero but finally he became a big zero. Now Sonia Gandhi is doing the same for her son Rahul Gandhi who is a big ZERO of Indian politics. Congress lost miserably in UP because of him. He should have committed suicide instead of shamelessly owning the responsibility for the Congress debacle in the recently concluded election.
Leave aside Churchill inducting his daughter into politics, his brother Joaquim also brought his son Yuri from nowhere by dubbing him as a dynamic social worker and implanted him into Sanguem constituency where as a foreigner like his father in Cuncollim was defeated miserably. Alemaos were rejected by their voters because they were not the sons of the constituencies they contested. Cunkollkars, Sanguemkars and Navelkars refused to accept them in their fold as their own citizens. Instead they elected their own candidates who were the real citizens of their constituencies and not ‘baddeache boil’. It is nice to note that people in Goa are become assertive of their rights and this attitude made the people to defeat Alemaos especially Churchill who was having a false opinion that he can win from anywhere in Goa. "Churchillbab, tum chintai titlem na tem". Remember what Shakesphere in Hamlet says , "there are more things in Heaven than what we dreamt".
Alemaos have fooled the people since a long time now and finally they became the victims of Devine Punishment from where thru Devine Intercession only they can regain their power back. But for this THEY WILL HAVE TO DO A LOT OF PENANCE AND RETURN THE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH TO THE POOR AS JACKEUS DID IN JERUSALEM ON THE ADVICE OF JESUS CHRIST.
Otherwise politically, R.I.P. ALEMAOS.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait..
March 6, 2012
IN GOA, THE DEFEAT OF CORRUPT CONGRESS IS THE VICTORY OF THE CHURCH.
From Kuwait I salute Goa Church for campaigning so vociferously daily during the Masses almost in all the Churches, Old Goa Bom Jesus Basilica and the adjoining Churches deserve highest compliments for impressing upon the faithfuls to elect the good candidates and not the same old corrupt faces. This message of Goa Church finally gone into the heads of Goan Catholics who elected the right candidates by defeating some of the corrupt hevyweights of Congress who were acting like Emperor Neros. That the message of the Church reached correctly to the Catholics in Goa was proved by the defeat of the Congress heavyweights in predominantly Catholic constituencies, namely Calangute, Navelim, Velim, Aldona, Cortalim and many other constituencies.
Even though the BJP is dubbed as anti-Christian yet voting against corrupt candidates was preferred by the Christians. And voting against corrupt Congress candidates was the need of the hour to save Goa from further disaster. This was what exactly Goan voters did by reducing the margin of Congress to just a pitiable 9 Seats compared to the previous 16. Congrees must eat a humble pie now, its topmost stalwarts including Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Pranab Mukerji, Sheila Dikxit all from Delhi by coming to Goa produced no positive result for the Congress in Goa.
Congress is hated in Goa from the time of ouster of Portuguese from Goa, for this reason even during Nehru's time Goans kicked out Congress. That Goans later on embraced Congress was not because of the love of Congress but due to the necessity. Current Congress in Goa is the group of prostitutes and defectors, they are not faithful to Congress principle and on the other side Congress Party is the party of corrupt people for this reason it got kicked not only in Goa but also elesewher.
Never in the past in Goa our Church was so vocal in advising the faithfuls not to vote for the same corrupt old faces. In my village Candolim during the Mass priests were advising regularly the faithfuls not to elect the same old corrupt faces and this was one reason for the people to vote against Agnelo Fernades - two time MLA from Calangute constituency.
Our Church acted exactly the way the Church of Philippines acted a quarter of a century back to defeat the regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos there.
The major credit for the defeat of Congress in this election should go to Goa Church and Its priests who vehemently defended some decency and morality in electing the candidates.
Other than the Church, the youth of Goa also played a very constructive role in defeating some of the most corrupt candidates. So also the Press in Goa mainly the Herald with its magnificent and bold editorials to liquidate the corrupt candidates.
Finally witih all my humility, I also played my role however small it may be thru my writings in goa.kranti on the need of destroying the "DADAS" of Goan corrupt politics.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
Even though the BJP is dubbed as anti-Christian yet voting against corrupt candidates was preferred by the Christians. And voting against corrupt Congress candidates was the need of the hour to save Goa from further disaster. This was what exactly Goan voters did by reducing the margin of Congress to just a pitiable 9 Seats compared to the previous 16. Congrees must eat a humble pie now, its topmost stalwarts including Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Pranab Mukerji, Sheila Dikxit all from Delhi by coming to Goa produced no positive result for the Congress in Goa.
Congress is hated in Goa from the time of ouster of Portuguese from Goa, for this reason even during Nehru's time Goans kicked out Congress. That Goans later on embraced Congress was not because of the love of Congress but due to the necessity. Current Congress in Goa is the group of prostitutes and defectors, they are not faithful to Congress principle and on the other side Congress Party is the party of corrupt people for this reason it got kicked not only in Goa but also elesewher.
Never in the past in Goa our Church was so vocal in advising the faithfuls not to vote for the same corrupt old faces. In my village Candolim during the Mass priests were advising regularly the faithfuls not to elect the same old corrupt faces and this was one reason for the people to vote against Agnelo Fernades - two time MLA from Calangute constituency.
Our Church acted exactly the way the Church of Philippines acted a quarter of a century back to defeat the regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos there.
The major credit for the defeat of Congress in this election should go to Goa Church and Its priests who vehemently defended some decency and morality in electing the candidates.
Other than the Church, the youth of Goa also played a very constructive role in defeating some of the most corrupt candidates. So also the Press in Goa mainly the Herald with its magnificent and bold editorials to liquidate the corrupt candidates.
Finally witih all my humility, I also played my role however small it may be thru my writings in goa.kranti on the need of destroying the "DADAS" of Goan corrupt politics.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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