When power is given to any Altu- Faltu person without proper maturity to handle it properly, he is likely to commit dadagiri . This type of dadagiri I noticed in most of our cheap and raw politicians mainly from the Panchayat and Legislative Assembly level. Their first target once they get political power are their immediate neighbours whom they forget to recognize as neighbours because they are intoxicated with the shallow temporary power to punish their neighbour A few years back my wife went to our local Panchayat to get license for constructing a new house where she was told to meet the Sir first. Who was that Sir? She was curious to know when that Sir received the Knighthood from the Queen? Then she was told that the so called Sir was none other than the local MLA who was against me for criticizing his faulty policies in our locality. To indicate his anger he asked my wife with disdain, “your husband knows to write only from Kuwait etc?" And then he returned our file with annoyance. In fact being an MLA he had no business to involve in our Panchayat but yet he did because he was the godfather of our Panchayat whose members were treated by him like his slaves.
Similarly, in one coastal Panchayat, one current MLA is playing this type of dadagiri to take his revenge against one of his constituents by instructing the concerned Panchayat not to issue a license for him to repair his house. Though this MLA has no business to involve himself in the Panchayat but still he wields the defacto authority over this Panchayat whose members got elected thru the bribe money this MLA has given to the voters to get all the Panch members elected.
Is this type of undemocratic method good for the smooth functioning of our democracy? Surely not, because both the MLA’s as indicated above are revengeful and because they are so they indulge in doing dadagiri by displaying their political power which is only temporary and not lasting. Displaying of revengeful nature by our politicians namely MLA’s and others is the show of lowliness which is ingrained in the blood of third class politicians who are of questionable character. Besides, the MLA’s indicated above are Catholics and to keep one’s anger in one’s mind to take revenge at an appropriate time is an act of Lucifer and not an act of the follower of Jesus. These are the cheap politicians whose actions resemble that of the actions of Altu-Faltu politicians. Because of such actions these cheap politicians are become a disgrace on Christianity though to fool their community members they go for Mass, receive holy communion and behave in the Church as Saints.
A. Veronica Fernandes.