Manohar Parrikar - a financial burden and NPA (Non performing Asset) to the ex-chequer. -- By Nisser Dias

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.

Rajan Ghate on indefinite
hunger strike demanding
CM's resignation

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.

Goans demanding CM Parrikar steps down from
office

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.

Administration Paralysis

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?

Goa and Goans being gangraped

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.