Two of today's Goan newspaper reports caught my eye which are worthy of a comment.
One says "PM ASSURES TO PUNISH GUILTY IN GUJARAT RIOTS" (Herald 14 Jan 2004 Front Page) The other says "SONIA'S OUTBURSTS AGAINST PM REFLECTS ARROGANCE: ADVANI Herald 14 Jan, 2004 Page 11) COMMENTS: 1. If the PM had the wish, the authority or the will to punish the guilty in the Gujarat riots, he didn't have to look far. The first guilty person was all the time next to him in the shoes of his own Deputy by the name of Lal Krishna Advani. And the next one was the mastermind of the riots themselves that saw thousands killed, mutilated , burnt, and displaced , and whom he has helped crown the Gujarat king--- 'Narendra Modi'. Vajpayee's time to punish anyone has vanished like a whiff of smoke. This, ofcourse is the gimmick used to placate the people of Gujarat to vote for the BJP. 2. Sonia has said the right thing. Poetry is wishful thinking. Politics isn't. Advani must know that his tall words to defend Vajpayee, whom he actually hates and would drive a spear in Vajpayee's back if people of India would support him. If Advani must know what arrogance is, then let me put things in simple language so he may understand the word better. Arrogance is whipping the country to a religious frenzy, getting the Babri Masjid demolished and calling it a shame.. Arrogance is secretly melting in Mumbai, all the silver deities that had been offered to him by the Hindu faithfuls turning them into kitchen bartans for home consumption as alleged by his own daughter-in-law. Arrogance is organising camps for the BJP cadres and brainwahsing them on the needlessness of money on the one hand and asking the same people to collect in lacs of rupees towards his fund from every state he visited. Arrogance is standing beside Vajpayee with a sorry face in Gujarat during the Gujarat earthquake but conspicuously running away from his duties as the country's Home Minister during the Gujarat riots. Arrogance is his darshan in the Ajmer Mosque when he has single-handedly, as it were, helped to raze the Babri Masjid.. I could go on and on and fill thousands of pages with Advani's arrogance. For a change, I would like to see a little arrogance from the Congresswallas who seem to have lost their will to show any. If Sonia is showing them the way, it is only because there are no leaders among the Congresswallas, only sycophants. Advani has nothing to tout about but Sonia's origin. For India, she is constitutionally an Indian citizen and can lead India as its Prime Minister if people of India decides to do so. But India will never allow rank communal fascists like Advani to take that chair of Indian honour. Floriano Lobo goasuraj ########################################################################## # 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 # ##########################################################################
