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MARGAO
The Aam Aadmi party has said that Goa had a good scope to promote an exchange or market for trading of MLA’s on the lines of stock exchanges which are also known as share markets.
While interacting with a group of commerce students from a city college, AAP State Convenor, Elvis Gomes has informed that successive government’s had redefined the art of survival in the chair by performing different kinds tricks to lure MLAs to jump like frogs at will by disrespecting the verdict of the people.
He said that the turnover from the transactions of jumping from one party to another was in hundreds of crores and if Goa could start a MLAs trading exchange, they could be traded for a much better price than they would otherwise fetch.
“Greed of the elected has always surpassed the need of the electorate. After three from Congress were released to support the BJP, it’s now the turn of the MGP to release two. Goa is always witnesses trading of MLAs. Appointment of two Dy CM’s is a case in point,” said Gomes.
He added that if the MLAs are traded through an exchange, the people of the Constituency could be made eligible for a share in the amount as dividend since the figures were running into hundreds of crores and the voters were important stake holders in the process.
Gomes than gave the students an insight into the history of defections right from the time Pratapsingh Rane who had accused Goans of being toilet cleaners, had defected from MGP to join the Congress and become chief minister six times. He said that a group of defectors from Congress had also formed the PDF government and tied up with MGP to form the government.
Similarly, Gomes said that the split in the congress with the formation of the Goa people’s Congress had propelled Parrikar to take over as CM with a mere 10 MLAs and that there was also split in the BJP in 2005 that led to the collapse of BJP Government. The more recent exodus from the Congress and the impending desertion of two MGP MLAs showed that all these parties were sailing in the same boat and were eager to reach their destination together by helping one another.
Gomes said that in all these games the people got nothing except entertainment to see MLAs outsmarting each other. “We have reached a point of insanity by doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results,” said Gomes quoting Einstein.
He said that voting for the same MLAs again and again but expecting them to behave differently was not possible as they had not shown a strong character to stand by the people but were busy filling their coffers.
AAP’s poll campaign in South Goa hits a hurdle due to denial of permission
MARGAO: The Aam Admi Party has claimed that their poll campaign in South Goa has hit a hurdle for want of permissions for the propaganda vehicles and hoardings from the election officials.
AAP leader Sidharth Karapurkar informed that the party had submitted an application to South Goa District election officials for permission on March 13 to use propaganda vehicle in South Goa but the permissions are yet to be issued till date.
Similarly, he said the party’s application to erect election hoardings at around 16 different places in the district have also not found favour with the election authorities.
“Our election campaign has been hit by the delay in issuing us the permissions. When we inquire with the officials, they only say the permission will be issued, ” he said, while saying that he fails to understand why the election authorities are dilly dallying with the issuing of permissions.
To a question, Karapurkar said that APP delegation had even called on the District Electoral Officer, Ajit Roy, but the situation has not changed for the better, with the party neither receiving the permission for the propaganda vehicles nor permissions to erect the hoardings.
