First of all, our Panaji MLA Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate must understand that an MLA is elected to legislate good laws and not for doling out government jobs. It is inappropriate for MLAs to even suggest or recommend names to favour candidates, since the selection for all jobs is to be done entirely by officials of the respective departments through a very transparent process and strictly on merit. Monserrate should instead be concerned about the rampant corruption at the Greater Panaji Planning and Development Authority which he heads and the Corporation of the City of Panaji which he controls through his proxy while not forgetting the Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited another den of mega corruption on which he is a director.
We have hardly seen the Panaji MLA speak in the Legislative assembly. Monserrate may be academically very ill-equipped but many others on the same page have performed commendably well as legislators. Will the Panaji MLA also please look into those huge assets acquired by some of his staff very disproportionate to their known source of income? This only shows how deep the tentacles of corruption have spread.
