Is it time for Congress to gear up for the next election in the aftermath of Ravi Naik’s sons deserting the Congress? When Erasmus Sequeira the Morgad son Baba of his Papa, jumped from UG into BLD, his father Dr. Sequeira said : “Gelo to boro gelo, mojem besaum gheun gelo”. With his leaving, the UG was instead strengthened. Both the Naik brothers leaving Congress nothing will affect the party adversely since it looks “bad riddance is a good riddance”. Their presence did not create extra ordinary dividends for Congress and they had no assetic value instead they were a liability on Congress and in fact because of them the standing of Congress did not go up.
I am surprised that they left Congress so late, in fact it should have been much earlier because of their party deserting tradition and I will not be surprised to see their father too following them shortly because “once the Lion tastes the blood then he will never stop”.
For Congress it will be a strenuous task to wrest power from the BJP but if the Congress moves systematically by discarding the oldies and the defeated candidates some of whom were so proud and arrogant and also revengeful and who are all a liability on Congress prospects, I am sure Congress will create an impact of its presence in Goa by discarding them all.
Secondly, Congress must close its doors for all the deserters whose places should be filled with youthful and faithful candidates and the hands of their president should be kept free to take bold decisions. The mood of the Congress supporters is very vibrant and they are all expecting drastic actions from the Party’s Low Command and not from the High Command which should be told politely to keep a distance from Goa that is having a very capable, sincere and faithful president whose proletariat background and simplicity are the big booster to woo the voters to Congress.
A.Veronica Fernandes,