Some of my best friends are in the BJP camp and one of them a current MLA asked me, whom I will support in the coming election. When I said definitely not for your party, he questioned me, “why?”. Then I asked him why should I support BJP and you in particular when you voted in the Assembly in demoting the mighty Coconut Tree? Besides, I told him that your party has gone against all the promises given to us in the last election. Then I asked him, where is Special Status for Goa? Why sinful Casinos are not evicted from Goa? Why minorities are psychologically disturbed with a feeling that they are a unwanted? Then I asked him you being a minority community MLA, why have you blindly supported the government in each and every wrong decision of your party including to demote Coconut Tree?
For all my queries he replied saying, since “I am a party man, I have to abide by the party’s decisions”. For this I replied to him saying that it was we the voters who got you elected to act according to our requirements. Besides, you have your own moral obligations to oppose what is bad for Goa. Being a party man does not absolve you from observing certain obligations even if they go against your party because your party has already proved to be anti-Goan by going against all the promises it gave earlier. Then I told him that it is not your party that got you elected, it is we the voters who got you elected though the party gave you the ticket to contest the election.
What damage the Congress party has not done for Goa during its long tenure the BJP has done in the short tenure and if it is given further mandate, BJP will extinguish Goa from the Map and Goans from its land. Hence, it is imperative to bring about a change in the government peacefully thru ballot and not thru bullet.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.