This is in reference to the coming Zilla Parishad election and the moves by the interested persons and political parties to get their candidates elected. According to my limited knowledge, the Zilla Parishad is powerless in exercising its power on anything concretely and yet there is so much of clamouring on the part of the candidates to get elected. Is it a prestigious issue to be a member of powerless Zilla Parishad?
In my Calangute constituency as per the available report, selection of the candidates has been finalized. One of them is by BJP the party that is vomiting its venom on minorities in general and Christians in particular. It is a time now for overwhelming majority of Calangute constituents belonging to minority community to question the BJP why it is letting loose its hatred towards Christians when Christians in the last election have already indicated their affiliation to BJP. If the same momentum is maintained in favour of BJP in the coming ZP election as it was done last time, then I am sure BJP will double its fury against Christians to show its originality of ingratitude. This has to be stopped by curtailing the march of BJP any further for BJP to put an end to its anti-Christian march. The salvo should be fired for this ZP election against BJP to send an advance warning to BJP to take care of its prospects in 2017. I can now only make my own prophecy and rightly predict that 2012 will never be repeated for BJP anymore. For BJP, 2012 is R.I.P.
Congress as reported in the media is contesting this ZP election thru remote control by fielding a lightweight entity in the constituency, he must tell the constituents why they should vote for him and what was his contribution in the development of the constituency, leave aside his village. Though he is backed by his local Panchayat yet he must know that his Congress led Panchayat has made mess of his village because of this his local Congress boss was defeated in the last 2012 election. His Panchayat team headed by the local leader is now going around in his village begging for votes for their candidate. Voters are asking a question to the candidate: “Are you going to be revengeful and vindictive just as your boss and Congress leader, if you are elected?”
The third candidate is backed by Calangute Panchayat. Now my question to all of them: What will they do once elected in their constituency and how? What is their manifestoes and power to proceed further? Who are their financiers and how will they recover the money they spend for their elections? What is their advice to the voters who will refuse to go to the voting Booths thinking that it is useless to vote for them because ZP is a powerless impotent body.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.