The December chill followed by a January thrill shook the PoliticalPatrao out of his year end slumber as Vasco witnessed a gentle tilt in the City’spower equation. City Guardian Nana Bandekar, who has been the ruling BJP’ssource of strength, not only in the port town but also the across the state,did a double whammy. First, he pulled a coup hoisting blue eyed girl Fiola Regoas chairperson, defying the reluctance of his ‘boys’ Vasco MLA Carlos Almeidaand Mormugao MLA. The canny old Nana followed it up by making his Councillorsdefy Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar himself. The ruling Councillors who hadearlier insisted on re-tendering of a municipality flat awarded to a former chairperson,who too was Nana’s protégé, defied theCM’s directive to re-tender the flat and insisted on the flat being awarded tothe initial awardee. Nana this time cocked a snook at the CM himself throughhis Councillors, proving who is the boss
The illegal voter at the Opinion Poll
If you thought that Shashikala Kaokdkar and AdvocateRadharao Gracias’ spat on rigging of the Opinion Poll was out of place then PPhighly recommends this Don Quixotish tale of Goa. While the state turned fifty,far away in exile from Goa’s politics one man did not fail to pat his own backfor the state doing so. Former Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro has been singingpraises of himself as Goa’s true revolutionary across the country. A few monthsback, Luizinho supported the cause of statehood of Gorkhaland advising theGorkha’s that he worked very hard for Goa’s statehood on similar lines. In theNorth-East, where Luizinho is AICC General Secretary in charge, Luizinhocontinuously makes headlines speaking of Goa as a successful small state withunique culture and language underlining his own tenure as a legislator,minister and CM for Goa’s success. Recently, Luizinho even praised his own rolein Goa’s Opinion Poll! That would have been fine but then Luizinho-bab was alad of 15 when Opinion Poll took place. The only credit that he can corner isfor voting illegally as he admits. Now, Tai has talking point there.
The bull in the Congress china shop
So Sudip Tamankar is in a bit of a fix. The man who pointedout that Ravi Naik as Home Minister in 2010 had given him documentary evidenceagainst Laxmikant Parsekar and Dayanand Mandrekar and their involvement in the state’sinfamous drug racket finds no Congress legislator backing him up. PP himselfhad seen the letter written to then Speaker Pratapsingh Rane with Naik andwondered aloud why Ravi was not giving it to CBI that was persecuting his sonRoy Naik. Then this letter was written to shut Parrikar up against his drugallegations on Ravi Naik post Scarlett Keeling’s murder. But the timing thistime is a bit out of place. Was it to take the focus away from LuckyFarmhouse’s statement on Roy Naik going public that forced the poor little richboy out into media glare?
