VOTERS MUST INVOLVE IN SELECTING THE CANDIDATES.

Whichever party it may be, without consulting us, the voters,  no candidate will be accepted by us in our constituency.  This should be the trend followed in every constituency in Goa.  Our  political parties are treating us, the voters like “Ghantta Boil”  by taking us for granted.  Henceforth, this trend must come to an end.   The voters should be taken into confidence at the time of selecting the candidate for any constituency.

In my constituency news is trickling that one defeated candidate is already hunting for his party’s emissary from Delhi to purchase the election ticket for him because as per my information High Command Commanders are all out to make money by selling election tickets to the highest bidders.   In this way national parties are hoisting on us candidates of their choice whom this time if imposed on us, surely we must not vote for them.

Candidates selected without voters consent show scant respect for the constituents and filling thei pockets by accumulating wealth thru illicit means become their priority.  Most of the defeated candidates in the last election  were the culprits of this sin.

The first class looters, bribe takers and revengeful persons were some of the defeated candidates in the last election.  We don’t want such candidates again. This time we want to know from every candidate from every party the real source of his income and assets.  Total transparency of the assets and wealth is a must now.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349.

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REVIVAL OF BANDODCAR GOLD CUP SOCCER TOURNAMENT.

Today, 20.05.16 GFA  revived the historic Bandodcar Gold Cup. It is heartening news.  It was in 1969 at MCC Ground Margao,  during the final of Taca Goa played between Sesa Goa and Vasco that the then GFA president Mr. Parkot requested Shri D.B. Bandodcar, the then Chief Minister of Goa, to help GFA to organize a major soccer tournament in Goa, I was then playing for Sesa Goa and was a witness to what was spoken there . Responding to Parkot,  in his speech as a Chief Guest, Bandodcar immediately agreed and thus this Trophy was born in his name.

Politically, I differ in his views but in sports I fully agree with him and one thing one must accept that what services he rendered for Goan sports none has done, of course with the exception of Fr. Mendonca the then Principal of St. Joseph High School Arpora that produced the mightiest sportsmen of Goa then.

During its first edition itself Bandodcar Gold Cup tournament turned out to be a big success where flood of spectators poured on to the stadium at Vasco where in the final, Leaders Club of Jullundur, Punjab, skippered by the then skipper of India, Inder Singh,  defeated Goa’s Salgaocar.  Inder Singh became  the darling of the Goans due to his sheer skill in dribbling, shooting and running when he was sprinting 100 metres in 11 seconds.  After the final, he was presented with a costly Gold Chain in appreciation of his excellent display of soccer.

I welcome the revival of this tournament and wish the organizers all success.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel: 750739349.

AAP CAMPAIGN IN GOA.

These days in our locality lot of campaigning is carried out by AAP.  When I questioned them who are their target, they replied BJP.  Congress also says the same, so too the other regional parties.  But according to my observation, none of these parties, regional as well as national, is capable to unseat the BJP from the power if they contest the coming election independently without aligning with each other, all will lose miserably, some even their deposit.

When all the parties are having a common goal to dethrone BJP then they must be ready to do some adjustment to fight this election otherwise BJP is surely coming back to power.  If this happens then all the non-BJP parties will be held responsible because they will be considered as “partners in a crime”. In this direction of forging an alliance,  any of the non-BJP parties must take the initiative and finalise the accord.

Individually on its own not a single party is capable  to dethrone BJP though AAP feels they are,  to win the next election on their own;  however,  if they are firm on this belief then they are in illusion. Besides,  to gain the goodwill of the Goan masses,  AAP is not having in its fold Dr. George Habbash in Palestine or Dr. Datta Samant both of whom did free services to the people as money was not their God.  For this reason people considered them as their gods and followed them blindly. 

In Delhi it was Anna Hazare’s shadow that made AAP what it is now but in Goa AAP will have to foist one on the heads of Goans.  If AAP wants to serve Goa then it must tie up with other parties to fulfill its ambition of unseating BJP.  Otherwise AAP will simply split the votes thereby giving BJP an edge over all others.

As it is AAP is concentrating only on the stronghold of  anti-BJP votes in a big way and also the anti-BJP voters citadel.  This gives an impression that AAP is all out to fortify BJP votes.  But by doing this AAP will not gain anything even if they bring hundreds of Kejrival to Goa.  Kejrival is not Gandhiji nor Jay Prakash Narayan. He is just a sectarian leader of one sector only, i.e. Delhi.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349