Our Festival of Lights is here but at least in Goa it is gloom and doom on all fronts. There can be no festivity with potholed roads, very erratic water and power supply. The common man is struggling with rising prices of even essential commodities.
We are facing the brunt of the greed of our current politicians who are adding more concrete buildings to an already badly battered Goa without caring to first put the basic infrastructure in place and with no respect for our fragile environment. Creating quality educational facilities and delivering on a dependable public transport system should have been the thrust of those in power. Instead they have transformed Goa into a gambling, prostitution, narcotics and crime hub.
For a State exchequer reeling under acute financial distress, as an austerity measure the government should have stayed away from extravagant spending.
On account of the intentional follies of this uncaring government we are today left to partake in the Festival of Darkness with not even a glimmer of hope or a chink of light at the end of a dark tunnel.Let us hope that this government burns its demons of personal greed, neglect and incompetence so that the people of Goa can celebrate a victory of good over evil and by so doing we can hope and pray for a miracle that under a new govt, Diwali 2022 will be full of glow and a Festival of Light worth celebrating.
