On Apr 10, 2005 3:23 PM, Cajetan Rego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:..................
RESPONSE: I congratulate you, Cajetan Rego for responding and also for posting your residency. We can now proceed to a dialogue hopefully. --------- > I don't disagree when people say that govt jobs were > given to party cadres. But did this not happen during > the congress rule? And do you think it will not happen > if any other party(MGP, UGDP,...) comes to power? RESPONSE: I agree with you that it is quite conceivable that these things, did also happen when the Congress Party were in power - I shall also further add that the Congress party do feather their own nests. I ask you though, did the Congress party discriminate on the lines of ones beliefs (faith) or whether it did not matter what faith one belonged to so long as they subscribed to the Congress Party ? ----------------- > Don't you realize that things we complain about, > happened even during the congress rule? Don't you > remember that we complained about the same things > during the congress rule? Don't you see the > development that has happened in Goa? Should we elect > the non-BJP parties and let Goa plunge into > instability out of their perennial infighting? Should > we let Goa have a new CM every 6 months and get > branded as a politically instable state so that no > industry finds us attractive enough to invest in? It > is true that there are problems in the state as > regards sanitation, power supply, lack of jobs, etc. > But should we not give the BJP a chance to solve them? > Do we expect them to get rid of problems in the four > years of their rule? Think, would Goa have been > branded as India's number one state if the Parrikar > govt had been a bad choice? Response: One should not jump the gun, ask your self the simple question - at what cost was all that achieved ? One sees new roads and IFFI and glamour; who picked up the bill for all this? How long into the future will the Goan tax payer be burdened with all these extravagant forays? Are you and are Goans prepared to forgo their freedom as far as Religious rights go, for the sake of progress? > > Saffronisation: > Parrikar did not put all of us in a gas chamber and > blow us up. Did he not have Christians in his > ministry? The problem is with the way we see things. > If a Christian officer gets replaced by a Hindu for > any reason, it gets branded as an attempt to > 'saffronise' the state. Nobody worries about the > actual reason why the officer had to be replaced. If > somebody comes out with a VCD showing anything > anti-Christian, even though it is history and > irrelevant in the present context, it is > saffronisation. When Hindu mythological floats were > shown at the carnival, instead of counting it as a > display of communal harmony, somebody wrote in a local > newspaper calling it saffronisation. When are we going > to mature? RESPONSE: I put it to you that you are being naive, Parrikar did have Catholics in his Government but could he have continued in Government without these Catholics stamping their approval? Moreover if the Catholics were so happy and content i.e. Monserate, who swore allegiance to Parrikar what made him change his mind? Did the Catholics support Parrikar only as long as their bottom line interests were met? If so why did Parrikar pander to them ---------------------------- > When we had an IIT engineer as our CM, we had too many > expectations out of him. Unfortunately he could not > live up to all of them in four years. However > considering all the progress Goa made, I think he > deserves another chance. At the time of elections, > should we refrain from voting thinking that all are > equaly bad? It is again a choice, we have to make and > choose the best among the rest. I have justified why I > consider the Parrikar-led govt to be my choice in my > posting: RESPONSE: What if any response, will you have, once and if Parrikar gets into office again and disenfranchises the Catholic Goans? What about the law and order situation - do you condone the vandalism of the street names in Panjim as well as the attack on the Hotel in Mapusa? I am not aware but did these sort of deviant actions take place when the Congress were in power? I am well aware of the Congress short falls and of their taking care of themselves first but at least they did not play the religious divide card! > http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2005-April/026572.html > and if anyone disagrees, I request them to justify > their disagreement before stamping abuses. RESPONSE: I don't know who abused you, as far as I am concerned, I believe my post was above board and intended to elicit a response from you or any other BJP supporter. I have never stated that I am for a Catholic to be in charge. In fact if any one has read my past postings my choice for the CM would be the Hindu Goan from your Constituency. What I and I guess a lot of Goans fear is that the Catholic Goans will be disenfranchised; the Catholics will not take it lying down and then we shall have a boiling cauldron.! > > Cajetan Rego > Comprem, Tivim Goa Cheers. Gabe Menezes. London England.
