Needless to say, those who are in power and are involved in crime should be punished according to the law of the land as they are supposed to be exemplary in their behaviour and thus should not be spared, particularly because they have betrayed the mandate of the people who elected them. No politician who is stained by crime should be allowed to remain in power. In fact they should be disallowed from contesting elections. The courts should be decisive in their verdict and the law of the land should be paramount in cleaning up the political firmament. Crime begets crime and crime then becomes a vicious circle that is exploited by those who are involved in it for their personal gains. While the courts are the custodians of the written law of the land, the people as the electorate should cast those politicians indulging in crime to the dungeons of political oblivion by voting them out of power. The beginning of a new dawn has to start now and the electorate should now concentrate on choosing politicians who will be the knights in shinning armour so as to become a bright new set of new politicians. As the elections in Goa are fast approaching it is the prerogative of the electorate to decisively herald a new era where our to be elected representatives are sincere, intelligent, law abiding, morally upright and persons of exemplary integrity.
