GOAN POLITICS
Goans go to the polls and have to decide to vote for national or regional parties,
corrupt or clean candidates.
How does our vote count? Where do Goans go wrong? Is the system failing us?
What happens when we vote for national parties?
These strangers from Delhi keep bullying us by throwing corrupt candidates on our
face every election. Their justification is winability and not credibility. How do
they win?
At a political level, illiteracy makes a mockery of the democratic process by
creating an oligarchy composed of some educated elite along with some goon elements.
At a personal level, illiteracy means subjection to an economic and political
marginalization, in short the exploitation of one of the most vulnerable in society.
If one is unable to read newspapers, they have to accept the second hand report of
literate people around them. Unable to understand political debate, they judge on the
basis of appearance rather than issues.
An illiterates' mind may be won, by booze, money or fear. This is why the
conscious vote does not count in our style of democracy. Having said this, the virus
has not spread to all of Goa yet, and we do have some good politicians but they find
it difficult running a government.
We have the BJP that has performed well in Goa in the last year and a half under
given circumstances. There was more accountability in government and the middle class
was happy. The only worry is for the minority, after what is happening in Gujarat but
there does not seem to be a communal element in Goa-BJP.
The Congress is the most corrupt party in Goa. I am not sure if this party makes
the people of Goa laugh or cry. There has been scam after scam over the years by the
same Congress candidates now in election.. They have no respect for the Goan
conscious. It is evident they have a reputation to stoop low with no foresight on the
party's image. It is difficult to find why the minority vote goes to the Congress,
although this does not translate into any significant gain to the minority.
Even if Congress may have more elected candidates in the assembly at this
election, the instability within the Congress party that is high will find it
difficult to form a government. In comparison to this, the combined political parties
will have much more stability then the Congress alone in forming a government.
In the local arena we have the UGDP. Can we take this party seriously?
After being elected, these candidates disappear from the UGDP radar. Usually they
are easily bought or given a cabinet berth by parties forming government.
This is only a vocal voice heard at election time.
The MAP is our hope on the regional front. They have given us our first CM who is
the best we have had. Although I think this party has to refurbish its' image,
starting with the name and add new blood to be the force that it once used to be.
We continue to have failure in our infrastructure: our water-management failure,
our roads and public transport are in bad shape and we have constant power cuts that
make our basic living difficult. In the last decade or two, most of our elected
candidates had prospered along with their choice of infrastructure contractors. They
have amassed wealth during the time of Goan suffering. How do we get this wealth back
to the Goan public?
Given our political equation, my best bet is to give our present CM the job, to
form a government with the lesser of all evils from various parties. He is the only
shinning light, in Goa's time of darkness.
He did start welfare in a broadly, for the first time in India. Giving social
insurance to the old who have no source of income is an excellent first step in his
short term in office. His other idea to save life on our roads with the introduction
of GATES is an excellent concept.
Here is a person, with a difference, a person with a brain and heart for the good
of the individual.
I am sure if he is gets a chance, he will have many more schemes to secure the
health of our state and security to its' people.
FRANCISCO LEITAO
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