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We are responsible for electing our leaders

The BJP is the dominant and ruling party at the Centre. They have built a formidable powerful electoral machine and are allegedly using every agency and means to win every election anywhere, everywhere and anyhow. 

In Goa, 10 Congress MLAs were welcomed with open arms, and even more than a year after defection and despite a reminder by Supreme Court, the Speaker has still not given his decision.

The same modus operandi is being carried out in West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee’s key ministers and other loyalists are being wooed to defect to BJP.

On television, there are debates. Those in power are given time to express their views, but the opposition is time and again interrupted.

All our institutions for checks and balances have been compromised. 

Agitations are the order of the day. The farmers’ agitation has completed 100 days and still there is no solution in sight. 

Where is loyalty to the electorate by those who we elect? We seem to be voting away our freedom. Are we worthy of democracy?  


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Clear garbage along road at Queula

PRAVIN U SARDESSAI, Adpai
Published Mar 8, 2021, 11:50 PM IST
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Dumping of household garbage along roadside happens to be a regular phenomenon not only in cities and towns, but even in villages.In villages around Ponda, situation in this regard has been deteriorating day by day. Garbage (mostly plastic bags) are found along the roadside in the vicinity of Shree Betal temple at Queula.Such a tendency has been continuing for quite long and the dumped garbage remains unattended on most occasions. Some years back a vehicle was allotted to…

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