According to my assessment, the coming election for the Goa State Legislative Assembly will be fought very fiercely because almost every MLA will do everything to retain his seat by doing anything within his capacity even by committing worst of crimes because when one tastes the power he does not leave it easily. Our current MLA’s have already tasted the power by way of different means either legally or illegally but even then that they lacked advanced social contacts is certainly correct. Also they have tasted the power which they used for amassing illicit wealth and also illicit sex that evaded them earlier because they are so “Burro” that at least some of them undergone their internship in sex with the real Donkeys only.
During their earlier part many of them were nowhere in the midst of society. Having tasted the power and show of MLA and Ministership in the current term they are aware of the importance of being in the Legislative Assembly which gives them full illegal authority to loot and even to kill anybody who comes on their way and yet this misdeed will go untraced and untracked as that of Fr. Bismarque inspite of the fact that we are having fully equipped with all the facilities the department to trace and track such calamities. Our Security personnel are fit to catch “easy to catch” wrong doers like those who rob because they are hungry. For such robbers we don’t call robbers but instead we call those who are responsible to catch the hungry as double robbers. It is wrong on the part of those who arrest them and also those who sentence them instead of owning their responsibilities by being party to the society we all belong including the hungry robbers. We have to own the resonsibilties of thier robberies bccause we failed in our mission to provide them suitable job avenues.
In this coming election Money will flow like water from any “Donsou” river water but they will tell it is very sweet and spiritual in nature and voters will believe these lies like idiots and idiots only will vote for them. Further I forecast that some of the contestants will even kidnap their opponents and even their family members especially the ladies and children demanding the ransom in crores of rupees because they are aware that only the “crorepotis” can afford to contest the elections. There will be besides, total chaos and disorder in Goa, there will be total law and order breakdown situation and law enforcing machinery will be shying away from performing their responsibilities conscientiously because they will be in a dilemmatic situation to chose between the good and the bad because when the results of the election are out who will be the superior and inferior of whom.
Almost all the contestants in the forthcoming election will be hard core corrupt and once they are elected there will be nothing good in Goa but all round de facto corruption leading to the running of parallel economy. Voters will find it extremely difficult to get any single candidate good. For this reason I have decided like that ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes roaming in the ancient city of Athens with a lighted Lantern in his hand during the day time in search of good person so too myself do the similar exercise in search of good candidate.
A. Veronica Fernandes.