Goa has a new Chief Minister but no governance. In an awfully bad start the new Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has bald-facedly proclaimed that the portfolios of his Ministers will be allotted only later this week in consultation with Manohar Parrikar.
As allotment of portfolios should be the sole prerogative of the Chief Minister it is now a very clear indication that Laxmikant Parsekar will be swinging as a puppet on the string in being a dummy Chief Minister. This is Political bankruptcy to the hilt. Acute signs and symptoms that by being a lame duck Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar will only add to the mountain of that mess that Manohar Parrikar has left behind. Ironically Manohar Parrikar who over the last two and a half years kept Goans entertained with his empty talk of Special Status for Goa will today file his nomination to be elected as a Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. On the other hand the North Goa MP Shripad Naik who has over the years been craftily sidelined and pushed to the corner by his bête noire Manohar Parrikar has now been further isolated in being divested of his current prized portfolio of Tourism & Culture and sedated by being relegated as Minister for Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH). A well orchestrated devious political surgery by Manohar Parrikar. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires