It is outrageous that armed with its brute majority, the Goa Government has in the just concluded four-day Assembly session shot down whatever few powers were vested with the Lokayukta. By bulldozing those controversial amendments to the Goa Lokayukta Act it has rendered the watchdog powerless.
Eroding the powers of the Lokayukta is an irreversible downward spiral to bad Governance giving public officials a jolly free hand to continue indulging in impermissible acts of gross Corruption and maladministration.
Anyway, in the given circumstances not even a worthy retired High Court Judge would want to be the Goa Lokayukta and occupy what will now be just a farcical position. A Powerless Chair only with Pay and Perks but with its hands tied, a lame duck Lokayukta dancing to the tunes of those in Power.
AIRES RODRIGUES, Ribandar
