The public statement made by Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate that it is time to make way for younger persons to run the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) is commendable. His assertion that 80 per cent of the sitting Corporators would be nixed at the ensuing CCP elections is further admirable. New faces have to be truly new, young and energetic. However, Monserrate's advice to the sitting corporators asking them to step down and allow their children to contest is outrageous. Is politics now to be reduced to a family business and a trader’s paradise? This advice encouraging others to step down and replace it with family raj politics is robbing Peter to pay Paul. It is only a new broom that sweeps a place clean.
