The recent skewed outburst by Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate, that the people of Panaji are not at all inconvenienced by the on-going road digging works is preposterous to say the least. He has gone further to state that only a few people are making noise. Is the MLA deaf, dumb and blind to the agony that the residents of Panaji are currently facing with a dangerous cocktail of dust pollution, diversions and craters without proper safeguards and signage that have already aversely risked several vehicles and people? It was the MLA himself who earlier had dubbed the Panaji Smart City works as a multi-crore scam. But is now part of the same authority which is rushing through ill-planned projects in a tearing hurry. If the MLA had any concerns for Panaji now a decaying city on his watch, then cleaning the stinking St Inez and Rua de Ourem creeks would have been a priority. The ill-judged outburst by Babush and incompetent performance of the mayor is typical of our local politicians and epitomises this BJP Government’s poor performance, of being in power but not in control!
