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Dears,
"It is high time we Goans realize this and give Parrikar a clear
majority. It is the leadership that matters. The rest of BJP is not any better
than the Congress, I agree. IITian or not, Parrikar is efficient.
Cajetan Rego"
Perhaps we should dispense with the sham of democracy and opt for outright
dictatorial demoncracy by Manohar Parrikar & his disharmonic coalition
orchestra.Viva Salazar encore.
Manohar-bab had the gall to tell two experts in arboriculture : 1.Dr. Heman
Y. Karapurkar, M Sc. in Botany, D.Sc. [Germany], [five times Director of
Agriculture, founder Chairman & MD of Goa Horticulture Corporation and former
Chairman of Goa Public Service Commission besides heading the Govt. appointed
Karapurkar Committee to determine Private Forests and the then incumbent
President of the Botanical Society of Goa] and 2. Dr.Arvind G. Untawale, [Ph.D.
in Botany, former Deputy Director of National Insitute of Oceanography, Ph.D.
Guide at Goa University, Secretary of the Mangrove Society of India and the
then Immediate Past President of BSG besides being the Chairman of the World
Wide Fund for Nature-Goa Division] that the wood of the Enterolobium saman
[Rain Trees] was sapwood ["phoos-phooxit" in his own words] that would break
with the winds. That these 37 trees, then earmarked for cutting to broaden the
D. B Bandodkar road, had stood for half a century [and most of
them are still standing now, thanks to our intervention and public protest
with other NGOs and the people of Goa] did not make him stop to think. He only
agreed to "hold the cutting in abeyance" till the scheduled mid-term elections
were held.
I was the third member of the BSG delegation. My opinion is not as
significant as that of Dr.H.Y.Karapurkar, during whose second stint as Director
of Agriculture I was deputed for my graduation in Bangalore. I had just an
M.Sc[Agri] in Horticulture and 20 years field experience in the Directorate of
Agriculture, Goa University and the Corporate Sector growing trees and writing
researched books on them for the Agriculture Officiers' Association,
Multi-lateral Donor Agencies from across the world and had just six years
experince as Secretary of the BSG. In contrast, Manohar-bab was the mighty BJP
care-taker Chief Minister of Goa and an IITian specialised in Metallurgy! He
had called for a snap poll after just 2-odd years in the saddle...and riding a
high horse. He fell lower than where he had begun through defections. He
survived another half term, using MLAs with a past as chequered as a patchwork
quilt.
Manohar-bab has NOT completed ONE full term in office, inspite of TWO
attempts. Selling welding rods is one thing; welding a power [read 'money']
hungry pack of rogues into one Government and managing that with a law-limited
cabinet size is another. Manohar-bab has proved unequal to the task twice. Will
he be third time lucky? One can begin guessing once the election results are
out...and there are still five months to go!
Cajetan has to check his facts and figures before he posts on the Net. All of
us do not wear lotus petals in our eyes. Apply for the balance sheet of the
IFFI in 2004, 05 and 06 under the Right to Information [RTI] Act, peruse the
figures and then see if you can muster the courage to re-state "All expenditure
on
IFFI is an investment that gets recovered several times." Cajetan may be
better off looking at the figures of the starlets that come to town on IFFI
evenings ;-) At least they look good...even if the Goa Government spends a bomb
to have them around.
Viva Goa.
Miguel
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:55:31 -0500
From: "Cajetan Rego" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IFFI is an event that has a high potential of generating revenue for the
state. Goa has to capitalise on its popularity and Parrikar
rightly tapped it. Money does not fall from the sky. All expenditure on
IFFI is an investment that gets recovered several times.
It was Goa's mistake that Parrikar was not given a clear majority in
previous elections, because of which he had to tie up with some of
today's unwanted MLAs. Had he not done this, things like the sale of Goa would
have happened long back and we would be living a concrete jungle already.
It is high time we Goans realize this and give Parrikar a clear
majority. It is the leadership that matters. The rest of BJP is not any better
than the Congress, I agree. IITian or not, Parrikar is efficient.
Cajetan Rego,
Tivim, Goa
Viva Goa.Say it with feni.
MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa
Horticulturist/ Editor
Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
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