The ailing chief minister Manohar Parrikar
made most of the Goans think that he is all about morals, ethics, above the
begging bowl et al but very few had seen through the mind of this wolf in sheep’s
clothing.
We also knew that his mind was not simple as
he wanted us to believe, simply put his thought process and his ways of attire
were poles apart. That some intelligent personalities seeing his dress code
gave him the tag of a simple man and they were way off the mark.
Manohar Parrikar is the most power hungry
chief minister Goa has ever experienced. We have seen arrogant chief ministers
like Pratapsing Rane and Luizinho Faleiro, we have seen corrupt chief minister
like Ravi Naik, we have experienced the most inefficient chief ministers in
Laxmikant Parsekar and Digambar Kamat, but the Parrikar is all rolled in one
and more – he is dictatorial, arrogant and despotic.
So much so that even being terminally ill he
does not want to pass the baton to a young colleague but sadistically wants to
inflict a deathly blow on Goa and Goans by paralysing the administration which
it is most despicable.
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In all these years we have not heard about
individuals resorting to indefinite hunger strike to urge his to step down from
office. We have not heard about protest marches demanding the resignation of
chief minister but here we have to resort to non-violence movement to make the
defunct Manohar Parrikar listen.
Lots of video clips on social media of the
Parrikar giving moralistic interviews and talks about when politicians should
make way for youngsters are moving around in cyberspace and also when he would
quit politics and power. For most of 2018 he has been weakly batting for his
life but is not leaving the crease of power.
How power hungry can this man be? Of course
his mis-rule as chief minister from 2012 had earned him a nickname as the
U-turn CM and along with it he had lost sympathy but his clinging to power from
his bed has stripped him of every ounce of respect and pity he had from the
people as along with himself he has put the administration of Goa into
Intensive Care Unit.
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One can understand that the exchequer can pay
upto to a certain limit for the well-being of their elected representatives
however it cannot be limitless so much so that quite a chuck of tax collected
from the hardworking Goans is being used for Parrikar’s maintenance.
The saddest part is that such treatment would
never be made available for the common-man. In fact the common man sometimes
does not get the basic medicines for which they contribute and many a times
influence have to be used for government medical doctors to even examine or
attend to patients.
The people have a right to know if not the
status of Parrikar’s health at least how poorer the ex-chequer has become with
his illness. We have to set a certain limit of how much of tax payers money can
be used to maintain the health of elected representatives.
God forbid if in his place a member of
another party had contracted terminal illness and was continuing as chief
minister, Manohar Parrikar would have brought hell on earth and have the
government turned upside down and ruthless as he is would have even cast
aspersion on the family itself for using public money.
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His ministers, party colleagues have now and
again been demanding that he steps down not only on health grounds but also
because Manohar Parrikar is no longer in-disposable to the government or the
BJP party but has become a huge liability to the Goan tax-payer.
In the history of Goa a social activist Rajan
Ghate also had to resort to indefinite hunger strike to make people aware that
there is total paralysis of administration and breakdown in law and order and
the imported and laced ministers in his cabinet are making merry.
There is talk that chief minister Manohar
Parrikar want his statue erected in the state of Goa and his supporters will surely
demand it but they can be assured that there will be a huge opposition to it
and all the dirt that is stock-piled in cyberspace and on the internet will be
handy ammunition. Manohar Parrikar will also go down in history as the 4 times
CM who never completed his term even once, though he had the opportunity to do
so. He will be remembered for all the U-turns, he will be remembered for not
being to solve the garbage lying our highways and roads which he has been
promising to solve December 19, year after year. He name will commit to memory
how he did not spare the students and curtailed their annual vacations. Can we
forget how he mishandled the rape of a student in a school in Vasco?
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The list of his mis-rule and mis-deeds can
fill reels of paper, how Manohar Parrikar’s decisions were taken not in the interest
of Goa and Goans but in the interest of BJP to make himself a hero.
Unlike yester years the real facts of how he
stuck to his chair even when he could not perform the duties he swore on the
Constitution of India, his integrity as a guardian of the State’s treasury has
been proved hollow as Goans are paying through their nose for the treatment to
keep his heartless heart beating.
After almost nine months of pumping precious
money to nurse him back to health has failed even after incisive treatment in
New York, Manohar Parrikar has become a financial burden and NPA (Non
performing Asset) to the ex-chequer as a chief minister. It is utter shameful
and disgraceful of him to remain in power. And to realize that some called him
educated and intelligent. An educated and an intelligent man or woman would
never try to destroy their State or people but only cruel dictators in the likes
Hitler, Salazar and Goa’s chief minister Manohar Parrikar is instintively
following their footsteps. All tyrannical, autocratic rulers have the same mind
set.
Even if Parrikar resigns now, it will not be
considered graceful and it will go down in history as he was forced to step
down. It required like minded people and social activists to take a morcha to
his residence urging him to step down.
Shame on you Manohar Parrikar.
