In the run up to next week’s Assembly elections, Goa is witnessing another struggle by determined people across the State seeking to be freed from the current corruption and nepotism to see good governance.
There has to be total transparency and accountability in the functioning of the government. Goa has to be unchained from the menace of being a gambling, drug and prostitution den which has become a safe haven for crime and criminals. It is despicable that an acutely debt-ridden government which is borrowing hundreds of crores of rupees every month has ill thought out projects being bulldozed against the wishes of the people.
For too long our elected representatives have failed to be a government of the people by the people and for the people. The insistence of the government to dabble in pompous projects that have little or no benefit for the common good and which have ended up as a scam, has forced a disappointed and frustrated people to liberate themselves by standing up to a government to demand that their needs be given top priority. The people have rightly realized that change and liberation will not come unless we are the change we seek. When we have personal, medical, economic and environmental freedom then we can have reason to proudly celebrate a truly liberated Goa.
