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Political discourse touching new low

Apropos to the report "Kejriwal moots corruption free govt." (The Goan Everyday December 22, 2021). As the Goa Assembly Elections in 2022 are inching closer, desperation in each political party's camp is growing. With new entrants like AAP and Trinamool Congress having thrown their respective hats in the ring of Goa's electoral politics, confusing Goa's voters seems the main motto. In the months leading up to the assembly elections we are witnessing a free for all season.

While addressing a mahasabha at Campal Ground, Panjim on December 21, Arvind Kejriwal said that Goa is a first class state with third class politicians. Kejriwal as a mature and responsible politician, should not allow public discourse to fall further low. If people of Goa remember correctly, in his second press conference around Diwali 2021, Kejriwal proudly claimed that he never lands in Goa with an intention to abuse Goa's politicians. That he always lands in Goa with new guarantees to make life of Goa's people easier. Now Kejriwal ji seems to have forgotten his promise of Shaalinta Ki Rajniti in the rough and tumble of electoral politics.
 
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Chief minister not a trustworthy politician

JERRY FERNANDES, Saligao
Published Dec 22, 2021, 11:43 PM IST
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Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has reportedly said (obviously at the behest of his Sangh Parivar bosses and keeping an eye on the upcoming assembly elections) that the temples destroyed by the Portuguese need to be rebuilt and has also appealed to people to support him to take up the task to reinstate Hindu temples and 'Hindu Sanskruti' in Goa. In other words, Sawant wants all his die hard saffron supporters to start wasting their time by coming up with their own fictitious…

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