There was lot of resentment on the action by Parricar of stripping Pandurang Madcaicar and Francis D’souza of their ministerial portolios. The nearest and the dearest of Madkaikar issued statement saying Parrikar kept everybody in darkness without giving any hint or indication that Madkaikar will be removed while Parricar said he took this drastic action on the advice of Delhi superiors who instructed Parrikar to remove both these ugly and sickly Ministers from his Cabinet (AND KEEP THE MOST SICKLY UNWANTED MAN UNTOUCHED AT DELHI? WHAT AN IRONY!!).
Earlier these sacked ministers and those who are now denied portfolios were saying that they will accept the decision of the party as disciplined soldiers of the party. But when they got kicks on their backs they all shouted like wild animals in the jungle. Shameless people who for the sake of power will do anything, unprincipled people are they!!
It was expressed that constitutionally it is mandatory while taking such action to give some indications to the concerned ministers. When Indira Ghandhi removed Morarjee Desai from her Union Cabinet, Morarjee Desai was kept in total darkness when he said after listening to the news bulletin in the early morning FIRST time that he was stripped of his Finance portfolio, “I was kept in total darkness about my dismissal by the Prime Minister Mrs. India Gandhi. I came to know of this decision only thru All India Radio News Bulletin and it looked to me that she dropped me like a Potato dropped in the kitchen by the housewife”.
In view of this, Mrs. Madkaikar and her husband’s close confidantes should not talk against the method used by Parricar to terminate Madkaikar. But what is surprising in this whole operation was the immediate reaction by Mrs. Madkaikar of jumping into the next election battleground. This is where we Indians and Goans fail in the practice of democratic system. Though there Is no legal impediment for the close relatives of the outgoing representatives to prevent them from contesting the next election yet it becomes imperative practice on the part of the electorate to scrutinise the correctness of the decision of the close relatives to contest the next election.
Regarding the decision of Mrs. Madkaikar to contest the election in place of her now ailing husband who is paying the price of the sins he committed earlier, it looks to me by following such ways we are practicing not genuine democratic process but Monarchical or Sheikhdom where when the ruler abdicates his throne then his immediate successor occupies that empty throne even though the new person does not possess the proper knowledge and experience to handle the new post. Just because he/she is the relative of that previous representative does not automatically qualify her/him to contest the election. This is nothing but the Chamchagiri where Indians are at their best and Goans are second to none.
Earlier, this type of Chamchagiri was made by those days Congressmen when they brought in Indira Gandhi in place of the then Premier Lal Bahadur Shashtri who died in Thaskent in the then Soviet Russia, to please Nehru’s followers when actually Indira Gandhi was not fit to be the Premier. She was not a true democrat and for this reason even Nehru disliked her. Because of her dictatorial habits we in India are suffering even today.
Then see in Goa what a monumental Chamchagiri was done by the MG Party when they inducted Shashikala Kakodkar the most arrogant, the most proud and the most communal person and being the most anti-Christian daughter of the late equally anti-Christian Chief Minister of Goa, Dayananda Bandodcar who thought that there is Bahujan Samaz only in the Hindu community. The most disgraceful Chief Minister of Goa who splitted Goa into two communal parts then and till now and till the end of the world we will suffer its effects.
Meantime, there is total chaos in Goa, nothing is moving smoothly, those who are occupying Ministerial berths they are least bothered of their obligations towards the good governance. They are not bothered because they have no responsibility towards their duties, they are most irresponsible people existing on this planet, they are interested in only amassing wealth for them and now since there is chaos everywhere it is better for them to rob not only the body of Goa but even the soul of Goa.
A.Veronica Fernandes.