Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar must be complimented for this spectacular Super Sixer : getting Luizinho Faleiro in the chair of the Congress Party President in Goa.
Parrikar has achieved what no other Chief Minister before him did -- emasculate the Opposition without engineering a single defection. But then, Parrikar is known for innovative thinking! He first reduced the Congress Legislature Party to a virtually rudderless (and after some never-before moves to tackle a stray Narvenkar or Deshprabhu) to a voiceless entity as well. The Assembly sessions passed off smoothly. Now he has got another Congressman -- the insides of whose cupboards Parrikar is apparently well acquainted with, bones or whatever -- to steer the party's future in Goa. The next Assembly elections will no doubt be a cakewalk, with at least 28 to the BJP (and damn the coalition!) Add another 5 to 10 if the original delimitation stratagem goes through. My sympathies to Nirmala Sawant, but in all these years of unflinching loyalty to the party, she ought to have realized that loyalty is no longer a virtue in the Congress party... Margao, 3/June/2003 -Valmiki Faleiro ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
