This refers to the news item in Herald dated 20.11.15 under the caption “Congress decides to stay away from tainted politicians”. Almost every Congressman is a tainted one and because of this they lost in the last election. However, if still some from this rank survived like Ranes, Digambar, Monsurate and others, it was only because of their personal rapport they built thru fair or unfair means, with their voters. Otherwise, let Congress Party in Goa display its guts to deny them election tickets. Congress Party is becomes a slave of these heavyweights.
If Congress Party wishes to maintain its presence in the Legislative Assembly then it must condescend from its old pride and align with the anti-BJP forces just as it did in Bihar. Otherwise, not only Congress Party as a whole will extinguish from Goa but even its traces too will disappear from Goa. Congress must support and align with the third front since individually it will fail because people in Goa hate Congress because Congressmen in the past looted Goa to amass wealth for them and their families. The wealth of defeated Congressmen and Old guards will justify my statement.
The worst culprits in Congress Party are the defeated candidates who in no way should be re-nominated because people oppose them for this reason they were voted out by the voters in thelast election. In their places young and new faces should be promoted.
While this experiment is done, to support the unity of secular forces under one banner to fight the next election, Goa Church must also play its role to fortify this move. Under BJP we saw how communalism and narrow parochialism is surfacing in Goa. This has to be stopped by dethroning BJP thru alignment of all the likeminded anti-BJP forces.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.