Should we vote for the Congress
Party candidates in the forthcoming election?
This is the poser put to me by many in our locality and elsewhere in
Goa.
I got myself graduated
to this level of Goan politics from the kindergarten of UG Party. My taste for Congress got lost when that
bitchy woman Indira Gandhi introduced the most
ruthless Emergency rule in 1975
for about 19 months. In the last election I opposed all the
corrupt Congressmen most of whom were defeated in the election mainly the Salcette
“Rostad” and Bardez “Ostad” including our corrupt one who thru the support of
Party Low and High Commands acquired huge wealth by looting the locality, by
threatening the locals and intimidating them into his submission. Good that he
was kicked out by his own voters otherwise with the degree of his brute
“Dadagiri” he would surpass even Saddam Hussein in dealing ruthlessly people in
his own locality.
As things are going on
now, Congress alone will never win the coming election; on the contrary it may
even lose more miserably than in the last election. Opposition leader Rane Papa is become unfit
not only to be the Opposition leader in the Assembly but even to lead the party
in the forthcoming election. His love for Congress Party is only for his
selfish gains otherwise he is anti-Goan by core being an MG Party child and MGP
persons are always with BJP. This is the
logic. If he was not made the Opposition
leader, I am sure he would have left Congress and joined BJP like Mauwin Godinho.
It is a pity to note
that once such a mighty Congress Party in Goa has now reached to such lowest ebb
and why this has happened? It has
happened only because of the crook and corrupt Congress MLA’s and Ministers who
went on with looting spree with such ferocity that by looting the Goans bodily
finally they looted them even soully.
When this is the case,
it is of imperative need for the Congress Party in Goa to deny the election
tickets to all the defeated candidates in the last election and replace them by
the new faces which are available in plenty. Relying again on the defeated candidates and old
guards will be the end of Congress in Goa.
This advice of mine to Congress Party under Luizinho Faleiro must be accepted
in its totality if Faleiro wants to keep the presence of Congress Party in the
local Legislative Assembly.
Secondly, individually
it is impossible for Congress Party to win the next election. Hence, Congress
Party must be bold enough to accept this fact and take the bold decision to align
with other political parties with a
defined manifesto to fight the next election.
BJP is not in a position to win the next election because of its sins
and sacrileges it committed against Goa and Goans and hence it will make all
the tricks to devide the opposition votes. This game of BJP must not be allowed
to play otherwise BJP will split the non-BJP votes and acquire the victory on
silver platter. The next election must
be fought on the pattern of Opinion Poll with the polling pattern like either
BJP or non-BJP. All the local and
national parties must make some sacrifices to fight this election collectively
to dethrone BJP from the power it is holding by cheating the Goans. Currently
BJP has reached to the highest peak of its dictatorial ways to destroy Goa. BJP
government in Goa following Salazar’s ways to suppress Goan voice.
In the next election
giving victory to BJP means justifying all the un-Goan and anti-Goan decisions
and legislations by the BJP, namely the defective Regional Plan, demoting of
Coconut Tree, supporting the Builders lobby to convert Goa into a concrete
jungle, deGoanising Goa with non-Goans etc.
Re-electing the BJP MLA’s means blindly accepting their support to BJP
government for all the wrong decisions against Goa and Goans. Wherever
possible, defeating these MLA’s should be the top priority of non-BJP voters
and supporters. Currently all the
non-BJP parties are for dethroning BJP from the power in Goa. If they are really true to this decision then
they must all come under one banner and with seat adjustment fight the next election
the way it was done in Bihar recently.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.
