Politicos have now started beseeching the Gods in another charade to hoodwink the janta; election campaigns are being flagged off from temples, masjids and churches seeking benediction from assorted deities.
We have been bombarded with images of our CM visiting different temples and mutts with a huge entourage and reverentially bowing down his head before the idols (why take cameramen along?) promising to make Goa heaven if given a chance again.
There's a new twist, parties are carting their candidates to religious places and asking them to take a vow of non-defection if elected. Another Delhi based party which parachuted into the State's electoral landscape recently asked their members to submit affidavits.
These shenanigans constitute a theatre of the absurd at best and downright deceit at the worst. It is pertinent to note that right after these teerth yatras and affidavit signing sprees many candidates defected to other parties in the fond hope of securing a brighter future for themselves.
Most elected public representatives in Goa who take the most solemn of oaths under the Constitution switch sides to share a slice of the 'power' pie disregarding the anti-defection law and past Supreme Court directives by exploiting some loophole or ambiguity.
Hopefully the citizens would see through this faux piousness from such conscienceless frauds, most of who have criminal records a mile long against their names and vote for hardworking individuals.
