Central BJP leadership should immediately sack incompetent Pramod Sawant – By Nisser Dias.

Pramod Sawant led BJP government in Goa has failed completely, not only to administer the state affairs and economy, he has exposed himself as a total failure in combating the drastic vertical rise in corona virus and Covid-19 deaths in the state of Goa.

CM Sawant violating Covid-19 norms

For a state that was declared as a green zone to turn into a red zone overnight speaks volumes of the aptitude and competence of the chief minister. And for this he should resign as chief minister or his party bosses at the centre should sack him.

From March when the country was forced into lockdown, there have been numerous instances of him mishandling the fight against spread of novel corona virus.

Even the people in the street could envisage the path that needed to be taken to keep corona virus in check, but the chief minister always strayed from that path and the consequence are for all to see. Goa has become ‘numro uno’ in the country in corona virus cases in terms of size and population of the state.

And now he has resorted to lying to the media for which he was rightly castigated and reprimanded by Governor Satya Pal Malik.

It would be in the interest of the state and its people that Pramod Sawant gracefully steps aside and hand-over the reins of the administration to other cabinet colleagues or advice the Governor to impose President’s rule in the state.

CM’s awful handling, planning and executing strategies to curb rising cases of corona virus and Covid-19 is woefully amateurish. It looks like the chief minister laid the red carpet for corona virus to infect so many people.

After staggered lifting of the first lockdown, the chief minister was advised not to open the borders for people to enter, but he did so. He was asked not to permit interstate buses, but he did. CM was asked not to allow trains to stop in Goa, but he did not heed that advice too.

It was not the Goan seafarers or expatriates that brought the virus to Goa, but the covidiot non-Goan chief minister of Goa that is wholly responsible for the mess Goa is in.

The bad decision did not stop, he went against the advice of his MLAs to lockdown Vasco city when cases started increasing in Mangor hill but he did not. The result is increasing numbers of positive cases and deaths.

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And to top it all, nincompoop, highly inefficient, incompetent Pramod Sawant has become more of an evening news reader to a local channel where he comes just to read out the numbers of cases, deaths, recoveries and to make a fool of himself by stating deaths are not due to Covid-19 but due to co-morbidity.

Sawant should know that Goans are not buffoons like the parliament of buffoons he heads as chief minister.

The latest bad decision was to open up the wholesale fish market where thousands people rushed to buy fish.

And the resultant of all these bad decisions is another awful lockdown 2 for just three days. We all know by now that spread of corona virus cannot be wished away in 72 hours. And what purpose will 3 days lockdown serve. The curve will not flatten but revenue generation surely will.

For all the mismanagement, either the central BJP leadership should sack him or the Governor should.

PI Sagar Ekoskar – the goon in uniform – By Nisser Dias

Kudos to the Goa Union of Journalists for standing up to the police force and inviting the villagers from Shel-Melauli in Sattari taluka to voice their opposition against the proposed IIT in their village, which was denied to them in their own village.

Maverick PI Sagar Ekoskar

Valpoi police inspector Sagar Ekoskar should hang his head in shame for violating the Constitutional Right of every Indian which is ‘freedom of expression’. For which he should be suspended, made to read the Constitution of India and then dismissed from service or rather dis-service to the very people who pay his salaries.

It is an open secret who is behind the move to gag the voice of people. But the police should know when to listen to their political bosses.

Speaking of political bosses, shameless police officers like Sagar Ekoskar shed their spine to corrupt politician in power.

This disgraceful officer should realize, he had stood up against Curtorim MLA Reginaldo Lourenco when the latter was supporting tourist taxi operator’s protest against GoaMiles last year at Dabolim airport, but was crawling and lapping at his political master’s feet in Valpoi.

Coming to the politician’s lap-dog questioning the protestors whether they had permission to address the media? People never have to seek consent from any authority to address the media. This is a democratic country.

PI Sagar is a coward and had guts only to threaten senior citizens. This ‘goon in uniform’ threatened, pushed and pulled the protestors and took them to the police station.  

Why did he chicken out when Congress and AAP addressed the media the very next day at the same very place? It is because his master too did have the nerve and mettle to challenge. Sagar acted like at dog acting on his master’s command.

In the video that is circulating on the facebook, it is very clear that Ekoskar’s face mask is below his face, who is going to take action against this violation?

This police officer should first lead by example before lecturing others and that too senior citizens. It is trait of the goons to enforce their view on others. And they do it for gains.

This police officer does not have a good record at all. In 2018 while posted at Sanguem Police station, the women wing of Shiv Sena had demanded his immediate transfer not only for shoddy police work but also aligning with law breakers instead of upright citizens. Birds of the same feathers do flock together.

Speaking about permissions has PI Sagar Ekoskar sought the authorization of the Supreme Court to adorn his car GA-08-K-4946 with the darkest glass tint. He might argue that the car is registered in his wife’s name, but as a law keeper, he should have not allowed his wife to tint the glasses of her car. That he drives it everywhere is a different matter.

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Sagar Ekoskar should remember the old saying, “It is public that pay his salaries unlike politicians who pay them bribes.”

Not that anybody has forgotten that Sagar Ekoskar tried to physically assault his superior and was suspended for it. The superior is now the superintendent of police. The instincts of goons never desert them and it does come to the fore when they see a weak prey.

And these senior citizens were a weak prey and because it was in distant Valpoi, he escaped the wrath of it. if he ever tries it in Salcete, he would get a taste of his own medicine.

Has the maverick police officer Sagar Ekoskar and his master got the guts to take on GUJ for inviting his victims to Panjim to address the media. I doubt it.

‘Patkis’ are forgiven not ‘ghatkis’ -- By Nisser Dias

On 14^th June 2020, Goa Forward party supremo Vijay Sardessai on his 50^th birthday, apologized to the Goans and said it was his political mistake to support the BJP government after the demise of chief minister late Manohar Parrikar.

Undoubtedly, Sardessai is trying to pull wool over the eyes of his constituents and Goans at large. He very well knows that the political ground under his feet is shaky and hence the tricks.

It is not that Sardessai did not carve out lion’s share from the Pramod Sawant government. He surely did. After retaining plum and lucrative portfolios allotted by the Parrikar dispensation, he forced the chief minister Sawant to swear him as his deputy. And obviously, the Dy. CM tag will be under his name lifelong.

So this pretentious apologizing or asking for mercy for so called political mistake is a complete hogwash.

When Pramod Sawant was sworn-in as CM, he was seen as a soft target as compared to the arrogant, despotic Parrikar. But the former proved otherwise for ambitious politicians, who are now spewing venom.

Question that arises is why would any chief minister drop his cabinet colleagues like hot potatoes. To my mind there are only two reasons. Firstly the ministers could be grossly inefficient. Second reason could be that the ministers had become too big for their boots and the CM was losing control over his cabinet. The second option to my mind is more relevant as it was rumoured that GFP was getting out of hand and running parallel governance. Given Vijay’s mindset I personally do not rule it out.

If at all Fatorda MLA has to apologize, he has address it on a public stage and not from the top of his ‘Goemkar Ghor’. He has to ask pardon from those credible citizens who believed in him and went out of their way to convince other voters to cast their franchise for Vijay. He has to apologize to those who stood by him when he criticized Parrikar and BJP from public stage.

And he has to ask forgiveness from voters who wanted a change in Goa from the communal rule of the BJP and reduced the numbers of the BJP in 2017 assembly elections and opened an opportunity for other parties to form a government.

It is Vijay Sardessai, through backdoor manipulations and self benefitting politics extended his support to the BJP and brought the communal party back to power. To rub salt to the wounds he facilitated the return of autocratic and dictatorial Manohar Parrikar to Goa as CM.

Not only from the top of his new building, he could shout from the tallest peak in Goa, Goans will never forgive him for back-stabbing them. Voters of Fatorda were not very happy with his performance early also and that can be gauged from the slender winning margin of 1300-1500 voters he had over his closest rival.

His voters and Goans at large have seen through the working and tidings of the Goa Forward party president and now they not only wiser but are better informed who they want as their representative in the assembly at the next hustings.

At the gathering on his birthday to mark 50 years, Fatorda MLA said, his party won’t aid the establishment of such a government in Goa in the future. For his party, BJP was finished after the death of Parrikar. He said, we will never let BJP rule the state in future.

This man is a chameleon; these are utter lies because GFP continues to be part of the NDA government and the question why?

Sardessai claims that incumbent chief minister does not have a Goan heart. Basically he wants to say that the Sawant is not a Goan, but it did not bother him when he was being made the deputy CM. Did Vijay Sardessai sell his ‘Goem, Goemkar and Goemkarponn’ to ghattar at that point?

There are lot of fingers pointing at Pramod Sawant for having bought land in Goa being a non- Goan. At the same time as many fingers are pointing towards Vijay Sardessai for having sold Goa’s land to outsiders. Hence there is not much of a difference between a Goan like Vijay and non-Goan like Pramod Sawant.

Ironically Sardessai still praises and worships the worst chief ministero of Goa late Manohar Parrikar who did not allow any Goan to rise to take over the reins of Goa after him, but allowed a non-Goan to the CM of Goa for the first time in the history of Goa. And that is the reason that the non-Goan CM is building Parrikar’s memorial violating all CRZ norms.

Vijay Sardessai the trickster that he is, is keeping his option open. In case chief minister Pramod Sawant is replaced by his party for inefficiency and maladministration, he will have no qualms of jumping on to the BJP bandwagon.

Health minister Vishwajeet Rane visiting Fatorda to greet Sardessai on his birthday gives credence that there is likely to be an overhauling in the BJP and the junior Rane who recently crossed swords with Sardessai is pulling strings to present his strength for the top post.

The former Dy. CM of Goa who was dropped unceremoniously in July 2019 rightly admitted that Goans are suffering because of his mistake. And that he and his party men are ready to seek penance. Penance he has too voluntarily, otherwise his voters will make him do it.

On 18^th June 2020, Goa’s Revolution Day, let us resolve to take Goa ahead without Goa Forward.