Dutifully following in the footsteps of his masters at Delhi our CM has gone on a wasteful foundation laying / inauguration spree to garner votes.
Some sterling instances stand out, supreme among which is the recent inauguration of the 'interim' Mapusa bus station which was nothing more than a tin shed.
Two days after the grand inauguration, the pavers and the tin sheets of the structure were removed; three crores of public money flushed down the drain simply to hoodwink the janta into voting for the saffron party.
Another example is laying the foundation stone for 'Goa Bazar Mahila Mall' with the avowed objective of making 20,000 Goan women swayampurn even as the finance department has not provided any expenditure sanction for the same.
Riding roughshod over your own ministry to grab votes is a cheap trick resorted to by the CM time and again. He has in the past inaugurated even mundane things like traffic signals, the function for which must have cost more than the expenditure on the lights themselves.
We are not even talking of the maskless people gathered in large numbers during Covid times at such meaningless photo ops endangering their own lives and the lives of others.
Glorified culverts, renovated helipads and toilets etc have also had the honour of having their red satin ribbons cut by the hands of the CM; oh what would our beloved country have been without these ‘Udghatanjeevis’.
