Outgoing Andhra Chief Minister Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu may have survived the bomb attack by naxals on October 1st but there was no miraculous escape from the massive onslaught by the electorate of Andhra Pradesh who inflicted on him a lethal political dose through the secret ballot at the Assembly elections.
Naidu was expected to lose but the intensity of the hurricane that swept him away has surpassed all opinion and exit poll expectations. Chandrababu Naidu whom the rest of India and the world perceived as a progressive and development driven Chief Minister has evidently not delivered in his own backyard. For the people who wanted water and power supply, Naidu's information technology revolution was no solace. Surely the 4000 poor farmers who committed suicide during the last nine years that Naidu had been in power would have sought divine intervention to bring about Naidu's political suicide as well. The fruits of the millions pumped into Andhra Pradesh by the World Bank and the Central development has obviously not reached the poor and needy of Andhra who vented their anger and resolve silently through the EVM's. So for whom has life been shinning for in Naidu's regime? In Goa it is a particular section of the majority community that is ruling the roost and making the best while it lasts. Justice and good governance is being denied to the ordinary people. We should not wait for the Comptroller General of India to point out the irregularities in Government spending. If the development of Panaji and IFFI were well planned, it would have saved a lot of public funds. Now that we are in a hurry to meet deadlines we are going to pay three crores for something that could be done in a crore and the works would be also substandard as they are being executed in a hurry. And it is the tax payer who is going to bear the brunt of such wasteful expenditure. Our Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's has traits of Chandrababu Naidu in his style of functioning and vision of so called development. If Parrikar does not mend his ways by showing transparency and accountability in governance he may face the fate of Chandrababu Naidu. The ballot is a silent way of getting rid of a ruler who is not in touch with the ground reality but a prisoner of his own propaganda. Aires Rodrigues Ribandar ########################################################################## # 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 # ##########################################################################
