Attn: Goanet Dear All, I fully agree what Mr. Tomazinho Cardozo wrote about politicians loyalty or loyal to party. First of all politcians means trying to grab the loyalty of the party by words and gains to themselves without thinking/doing anything to the party or party followers/people of the party. Before election they give the sweet words and when they are elected they forget everything they said and go after their power of gains i.e royalty. Soon they become selfish even forget their health and hug for the wealth. Some of them don't even sleep well but think day and night how start their business..... Any candidate who is unloyal to their party run after their gains by forgeting or without consulting their voters. They will be like one man's band dancing with his/her own tunes. They will choose the ruling party who will be giving them benifits. Every voter has right and should punish such candidate. If there is any collapse of the ruling party Governor 's rule should applied till the next election. No other party should be given a chance to form the new government. This leads to run and join the new party. Like this too a kind of lesson/punishment to the politicians which to tie their hands and gives no chance to act during the period. Now a days we never see any good politician, Goan politic is like a circus , without a ring master. According to me a good politician should stand by his/her loyal party or they should work as independent candidate for the sake of the people needs. An elected candidate of any party means he/she is voted by the people and they should work for the people though the party. He/she should try to grab the high position and work for party and think of the people who supported him/her. If a candidate who is not loyal to the party or to the people, he/she runs away here and there to grab the position, powers and gains should not be voted/elected at all, because they are unloyal.they should be punished by the voters.Without any vote no one can can be choosen. Vote is first and most valuable weapon of the candidate. Finally in India we have too many people and countless parties and every election new-new parties are also formed which is absolutely wrong. Everybody thinks this is democracy. There is no decency of democracy, it is like killing the democracy rights and they go beyond their limits and voters become the loosers. This shows the founder of the party becomes the leader and he goes with his/her own rules. In India if we opt to have just 2 main parties and an independent candidate our Country will flourish and improve, all corruption will be declined and hope one day India will stand top of the world with all aspects. That's all from me. Regards to all, Mario V. S. Pereira,
*************************************************************************************************************************** ########################################################################## # Don't just read the news...discuss it. Learn more about Goa via Goanet # # Goanet was setup in 1994 and has spent the last decade building a # # lasting Goan non-profit, volunteer-driven network in cyberspace. # # Visit the archives http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # # To join, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to join Goanet. # ########################################################################## The politics of loyalty By Tomazinho Cardozo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Politics, as I understand, is an art to gain political power. The only way to obtain such power is to have control over the Government. It does not matter whether the means used to achieve this goal are legal or illegal. In other words politics means struggle for power, its only aim being to grab power under any circumstances. Loyalty, on the other hand, is one's firm allegiance to a political party. Loyalty demands faithfulness, dedication and sincerity. A loyalist is ready to sacrifice anything and everything for his party. A loyalist is a soldier of the party in the true sense of the word. Does loyalty have any relevance in today's politics? I am touching upon this subject because of Goa former Congress president Ms. Nirmala Sawant's resignation from the Congress party. Her resignation was highly publicised by the media branding her as the loyalist of the first order. As for me, in today's Goan politics, no politician is loyal to his or her party irrespective of party affiliation. The MLAs who swear by the party today, if denied a ticket to contest the elections, will definitely fight it out as independents against the party candidates. In other words, a politician is loyal to his party only as long as the party dances the tunes of the politician. I have personal experience in this matter. When I was defeated in the Calangute Constituency by Suresh Parulekar, there was only one request from the Congress workers of Calangute Constituency to the Congress leaders in Goa. That was that Mr. Parulekar should not be admitted in to the Congress. Over 500 workers collectively met the Congress leaders and submitted a memorandum giving reasons why Mr. Parulekar should not be admitted in to the party. The request was not considered at all. Mr. Parulekar was admitted. The Congress fraternity in Calangute Constituency was insulted. I myself was tremendously hurt seeing the action of the Congress leaders of Goa. I never expected such an attitude from them towards me because these were the same leaders who were pleading with me to save the party and the government even at the cost of my personal reputation. I felt dejected not because Mr. Parulekar was admitted in to the Congress party but because my own leaders betrayed my trust and my loyalty to the party. I felt that I am not fit for politics. Without any publicity I walked out from the political arena of Goa. Ms. Nirmala Sawant, who was one of the leaders of the Congress then, happened to meet me during a social function. She gave me a big lecture on loyalty towards the party. She spoke about the sacrifices one has to make for the good of the party. Her contention was that I should not have left the party. I told her, "I do not agree with you because I believe in some ethics in politics. You would have understood me right only if you were in my shoes." Today Ms. Sawant *is* in my shoes. The only difference between us is that I left the party as well as the political field while she has left the party, but not the political field. She is also fighting the elections against the official Congress candidate. In case she wins the elections, she might be back in the Congress party, as it normally happens, with more power and more influence. If so, she will be a stronger Congress leader than before as most of the disloyal leaders in the party have proved. I wish her all the best. Unlike in other democracies of the world, it is not loyalty but disloyalty to the party, at one time or the other that makes a politician indispensable in the political field in Goa today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tomazinho Cardozo is a former Speaker of the Goa assembly, a prominent artiste from the world of Konkani, and a sarpanch of the Candolim village for many terms. He has recently retired from his stint as a school headmaster. Cardozo has been long in touch with Goanet, and was present at one of the year-end reunions of Goanetters at Aguada, sometime in the late 'nineties. 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