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Goa can become a model state if politicians want: Remo Panaji, Nov. 27 (PTI): Goa can be a model state within no time but politicians, who can spend crores on film festival, do not care about the people in the state, said Goa's singer of international repute Remo Fernandes. "I am not protesting the film festival," Remo, who has kept away from the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI), 2005 voicing his concern over spending on films and neglect of the vital issues that affects Goa, said. "I was invited to compose song for IFFI inauguration which I refused. I suppose they wanted to buy my soul and silence me by offering me the song as I would have to sing asking people to come for IFFI through that song," Remo told reporters at his residence in Miramar, near here. "If they can do it on film festival why could not they do it for improving our hospitals, schools and other basic amenities like roads," he questioned. "Countries like France before holding Cannes festival spend on their people and only after that they open their coffers for festival," he added. "If the politicians want they can convert Goa into a model state but they want power and they don't realize that simplest way to cling to power is to work for the people," Remo said. -- Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London, England
