Should we vote for the Congress Party candidates in the forthcoming election? This is the poser put to me by many in our locality and elsewhere in Goa.
I got myself graduated to this level of Goan politics from the kindergarten of UG Party. My taste for Congress got lost when that bitchy woman Indira Gandhi introduced the most ruthless Emergency rule in 1975 for about 19 months. In the last election I opposed all the corrupt Congressmen most of whom were defeated in the election mainly the Salcette “Rostad” and Bardez “Ostad” including our corrupt one who thru the support of Party Low and High Commands acquired huge wealth by looting the locality, by threatening the locals and intimidating them into his submission. Good that he was kicked out by his own voters otherwise with the degree of his brute “Dadagiri” he would surpass even Saddam Hussein in dealing ruthlessly people in his own locality.
As things are going on now, Congress alone will never win the coming election; on the contrary it may even lose more miserably than in the last election. Opposition leader Rane Papa is become unfit not only to be the Opposition leader in the Assembly but even to lead the party in the forthcoming election. His love for Congress Party is only for his selfish gains otherwise he is anti-Goan by core being an MG Party child and MGP persons are always with BJP. This is the logic. If he was not made the Opposition leader, I am sure he would have left Congress and joined BJP like Mauwin Godinho.
It is a pity to note that once such a mighty Congress Party in Goa has now reached to such lowest ebb and why this has happened? It has happened only because of the crook and corrupt Congress MLA’s and Ministers who went on with looting spree with such ferocity that by looting the Goans bodily finally they looted them even soully.
When this is the case, it is of imperative need for the Congress Party in Goa to deny the election tickets to all the defeated candidates in the last election and replace them by the new faces which are available in plenty. Relying again on the defeated candidates and old guards will be the end of Congress in Goa. This advice of mine to Congress Party under Luizinho Faleiro must be accepted in its totality if Faleiro wants to keep the presence of Congress Party in the local Legislative Assembly.
Secondly, individually it is impossible for Congress Party to win the next election. Hence, Congress Party must be bold enough to accept this fact and take the bold decision to align with other political parties with a defined manifesto to fight the next election. BJP is not in a position to win the next election because of its sins and sacrileges it committed against Goa and Goans and hence it will make all the tricks to devide the opposition votes. This game of BJP must not be allowed to play otherwise BJP will split the non-BJP votes and acquire the victory on silver platter. The next election must be fought on the pattern of Opinion Poll with the polling pattern like either BJP or non-BJP. All the local and national parties must make some sacrifices to fight this election collectively to dethrone BJP from the power it is holding by cheating the Goans. Currently BJP has reached to the highest peak of its dictatorial ways to destroy Goa. BJP government in Goa following Salazar’s ways to suppress Goan voice.
In the next election giving victory to BJP means justifying all the un-Goan and anti-Goan decisions and legislations by the BJP, namely the defective Regional Plan, demoting of Coconut Tree, supporting the Builders lobby to convert Goa into a concrete jungle, deGoanising Goa with non-Goans etc. Re-electing the BJP MLA’s means blindly accepting their support to BJP government for all the wrong decisions against Goa and Goans. Wherever possible, defeating these MLA’s should be the top priority of non-BJP voters and supporters. Currently all the non-BJP parties are for dethroning BJP from the power in Goa. If they are really true to this decision then they must all come under one banner and with seat adjustment fight the next election the way it was done in Bihar recently.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.Tel:7507394349.