The Congress in Goa is waiting for the BJP government to fall under its own weight and give them a chance to rule. The Congress party is not proactive. The MLAs are a lazy lot, disunited and they expect the voters and the anti-incumbency wave against the BJP to put them back in power. The Congressmen distrust one another and fight for power of office. Meanwhile, the BJP enjoys the fruits of power.
The 17 Congress legislators, elected on the Congress ticket in March of 2017, waited with open mouths as constitution morally expects, for the Governor of Goa, who is a “BJP nominated-authority” to bestow power on to the Congress party!
In the one year since, Viswajit Rane defected from the Congress to the BJP and Manohar Parrikar skillfully stitched up a “khichdi government” which strangely, still continues to rule Goa in spite of the BJP having only 12 BJP legislators in the house, far less than the mandatory 21 MLAs required to form a stable government for any single party.
Fortune always favours the brave and politics and morality are two different things. The age old adage clearly spells out that politics is largely the refuge of scoundrels. In politics there are no permanent friends or foes, it is the “permanent interests” of those who are elected that matters.
Sadly for the Congress, their main individual interest is they individually should be in the Chief Minister’s chair. The best the Congress office bearers do is to issue meaningless press notes and conduct sterile press conferences.
It is not amusing to read in local newspapers that Congress leaders, specifically the Congress ex-Chief ministers as well as Babu Kavlekar the leader of opposition, crying foul and shouting, that the BJP is denying funds to the Congress elected MLA’s and their constituencies? In the same breath Kavlekar does not want to destabilize the BJP. Babu Kavlekar seems to be a confused Congress man entrusted upon Goan voters and citizens without a mandate!
Has the Congress forgotten the “Humpty Dumpty” governments from the 1990-2000 and even beyond in Goa. We must learn from history as to how power is acquired in politics. Politics in Goa was always beyond ethics. Francisco Sardinha, Pratapsingh Rane, Luizinho Faleiro, Willy D’Souza and Dr. Jack Sequeira were victims of power manipulations. Goans would remember even in the 1960s, when Dayanand Bandodkar split the United Goans party to stabilize his own personal power and left Dr. Jack Sequeira, high and dry by breaking the unity of the opposition in the Assembly.
Why go that far? Have the Congress legislators forgotten what Manohar Parrikar did to Francisco Sardinha in October 2000 when the latter had gone to Australia on an official tour only for a few days? This is how the BJP first came to power.
Sadly, almost all ex-Chief Ministers or ministers from the Congress have their hands soiled by corrupt practices or scams, which BJP bosses are holding on to. To redeem themselves and to acquire political sanctity and redemption, these corrupt Congressmen know too well that they have to keep their mouths, eyes and ears shut or join BJP like how Mauvin Godinho, Pandurang Madkaikar, Vishwajeet Rane, etc have done to find themselves absolved of corruption and CBI raids on them.
All is fair in love and war in politics in India; U-turnism, back stabbing and blame game has been the order of the day.
These days there is an interesting video being circulated in Goa depicting what Justice Katju, the former Supreme Court Judge had to say of our parliament-functioning and of our parliamentarians, and their credibility. For those who did not see the video and understand what the former Supreme Court Judge said, I explain as under: Earlier, Justice Katju had said over 95% of Indian are “idiots” and do not deserve democracy. In this video Justice Katju has clearly spelt our amongst many other views that India deserves a Revolution and all the parliamentarians be sent home since they only shout and do absolutely no business in the Parliament. Only the tax payer’s money is wasted. No political party is above board. They all are scoundrels and hence a Revolution as bloody as the French Revolution would be needed to improve the lives of the common man emphasized Justice Katju.
As a researcher, I asked for opinion of many, their views on Justice Katju’s observations, and, I can confidently declare that almost all with whom I interacted, unanimously declared that Justice Katju was right in his observations. Rape of Goa due to coal dust, mounting garbage sewage, etc is affecting our quality of lives in Goa. The Congress party to date has failed to lead an agitation, protest march or seek the courts’ directions towards social or public issues !
In Goa also all the legislators are considered as parasites who do not work for the interests of the people but connive with “vested interest” against public interests. Mining, taxi, casino dependents and those depending on tourism, gambling, liquor trade together with our corrupt politician’s loot and destroy Goa with scams. Farmers, fishermen skilled labourers and the common man of Goa is suffering. Is it not the time for a Goa Revolution. If not now then when?
