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| Nisser Dias |
“Having
learnt from out past mistakes, the entire Congress is now galvanised right from
the booth level to meet the expectations of the people so as to regain their
faith”.
“In
your hands is Failure report of the BJP led State Government containing a list
of U-turns, broken promises, brazen scams and saga of bad governance”.
The above lines are authored and signed by
the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Luizinho Faleiro in their so
called ‘charge-sheet’ against the BJP government in Goa.
Without a shadow of doubt, we have fallen
from the frying pan into the fire when Goa rejected the Congress and gave an
opportunity to the BJP to make right the wrongs of the Congress. Nevertheless
we were pushed to the precarious situation by the Congress itself.
If we had to give a mandate to Congress in
2012, it would mean we accepted their rule with high corruption levels, nepotism,
family raj, sky rocketing prices and list goes on. So BJP was the natural
option in 2012 with no other regional political force. And they also duped us
just like the Congress. So Faleiro should stop lecturing us on bad governance
of the BJP as Congress has achieved ‘Doctorates’ in corruption at all levels.
One can safely say that Congress has created
opportunities for corruption and BJP has encashed them. For example setting up
of an airport at Mopa is Congress’ doing, SEZ is Congress’ baby, casinos were
invited by the Congress. The road to Goa’s destruction was laid out by the
Congress and the BJP paved it. Congress and BJP are two sides of the same coin.
Parrikar and Luizinho are both humble out of power and both are arrogant when
they attain power, there is no difference between them.
Hence both Congress and BJP, just like
Parrikar and Luizinho are equally to be blamed for the destruction of Goa and
also the situation we Goans are in as of today. This is the ground reality.
That aside, the Congress has released its so
called charge-sheet to highlight 25 failures of the BJP led government. This is
also typical or rather synonymous with Luizinho Faleiro. ‘Black paper, White
paper and now charge-sheet are common terms of his parlance.
But he should understand that the masses are
aware of the U-turns and betrayal of the BJP government. What we need to see
the ‘white paper’, ‘black paper’, ‘charge-sheet’, ‘report card’ or ‘performance
sheet’ of the 9 Congress fellows in the assembly from 2012.
The Congress should come out with a charge-sheet
on them. Opposition Leader in the Assembly – the fossilized Pratapsing Rane was
mum in the Assembly throughout the term. The only party colleague who stood the test of time of
the BJP government is Curtorim MLA Reginaldo Lourenco and presently he stands
sidelined in the Congress.
Coming to last para of the introductory
message of the GPCC president in the chargesheet he has released on the BJP
government, “I stand before you with a
promise of rejuvenated Congress which will strive to provide people centric
governance in which we shall endeavour to give flight to the aspiration of
every fellow Goemnkar while committing to preserve the ethos and spirit of
‘Goem’ and ‘Goemkarponn’ at all cost”.
The congress has betrayed, back stabbed Goans
and raped and gang-raped Goa for all the years it was in power. And now the
Congress is again begging to trust them. We have seen and experienced the
arrogance that engulfs the Congress’ fossilized leaders once they come to
power. GPCC president Luizinho Faleiro is simply not nick-named ‘Salazar’
by
the Goans and if press-persons are asked they will recite volumes of his
arrogance when in power.
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| GPCC President Luizinho Faleiro |
Special mention has to be made to the word ‘rejuvenated’ we fail to understand
what Faleiro is talking about. Most of the party functions one can see the same
old faces most of whom have been rejected by the people. We need to see fresh
faces of dynamic young men and women who have a different perception for Goa. Young
Goans who want to see a developed Goa, Goa where youth are not forced to leave
their mother land to seek employment overseas, Goa where our culture and
traditions are revived, where government policies are designed to suit the
needs of Goans but sadly Congress does not promote such individuals. They want same
old individuals who have graduated to fill their personal accounts the moment
power is handed over to them.
The people would have reposed faith in the
party only if ex-GPCC president John Fernandes was backed by the Congress high
command to clean up the party of turn-coats and traitors.
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| John Fernandes |
He did begin the clean-up of the party but
the aged foogies ganged-up against him and was replaced. The current situation
is Joaquim Alemao who all the while proclaimed himself as ‘loyal soldier’ has
threatened to contest on ‘people’s ticket’ if not allotted Congress
candidature. Can we forget Francisco Sardinha was denied ticket to contest South
Goa Parliamentary seat even though he was an MP, the repercussion were his son
contested to split the Congress votes. That Congress candidate Reginald
Lourenco would not win the seat is a different issue but the revenge or
vindictive element was present. But at the same time Francisco would not also
win the seat.
People had appreciated John Fernandes’
efforts to kick-out turn-coats and traitors out of the party but the Congress
big-wigs worshiped these corrupt leaders and still continue to do so.
Just like the voters had got fed-up with the
Congress and reduced them to a single digit in the 2012 election, BJP too will
meet the same fate but that does not mean the people will vote for the Congress.
Today there are options before the voters and voters will exercise their
franchise responsibly and with fore-sight.
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