The skewed statement by Calangute MLA Michael Lobo that earlier leaving the BJP was a mistake is ludicrous which only concedes his political immaturity.
Has he yet not realised that politics must be a serious affair and cannot be a child’s play? It also demonstrates a clear lack of judgment, something which elected representatives and law makers are called upon to exercise daily.
Those eight defectors should realise that joining or leaving a party has to be a well thought decision based on values and principles never ending up as a reckless move without proper application of mind.
Making a mockery of those sworn affidavits and more so reducing their pledge before God as a laughing stock was condemnable.
Ironically after the Assembly election results, the Congress opted for Michael Lobo as Leader of Opposition sidelining Senior leader Digambar Kamat which understandably left the former Chief Minister hurt and wounded. And now Sankalp Amonkar has also lamented that despite him being senior he was not chosen to head the Legislature wing of the Congress.
Paradoxically all the three were part of that gang of eight that betrayed the Congress and the voters by that suicidal dive into the BJP selfishly for their own personal development. The fate of these eight betrayers will be no different than the plight faced by earlier defectors.
