Dear All, This article of Dr. Oscar appeared in Niz Goenkar.today ( 19.8.2016). I have just copied it.
Stephen Dias, Dona Paula ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- AAP Is The Last Hope For Goa – by Dr Oscar Rebello Thursday - Aug 18, 2016 [image: AAP Is The Last Hope For Goa – by Dr Oscar Rebello] My good friends Radharao Gracias and Aires Rodrigues, both sharp political and legal brains and who have never compromised on their secular and inclusive values, are at it again. On their recent Facebook posts, they have torn into AAP and AK in particular on the latest, breathless controversy that is supposed to have engulfed AAP as regards the "office of profit". The messaging and missives against AAP are clear: YOU ARE AS ROTTEN AS THE CURRENT POLITICAL DISPENSATIONS AT PLAY. So. There is no condemnation from the sanctimonious BJP spokespersons and sundry Congress wise men against dime a dozen, overtly fattened and lovingly pampered Parliamentary Secretaries in states like Gujarat, HP, Punjab etc tiled by them. But if AAP does it, for pure administrative reasons to hasten governance delivery, the wolves are out baying for blood. True, constitutional provisions may have been inadvertently overlooked, but is a government allowed to self-correct in a democracy? And pray Radha and Aires what of the Babushes, Churchills, Joaquims and other characters, who did nothing but profit more than Goldman Sachs and J P Morgan when in office and you have so eloquently defended on other occasions? Are they children of a superior God?? And Goa be damned? AAP (and consequently AAP - GOA) stands for the following and let me spell it out for the uninitiated and wilfully prejudiced: 1. We aim to reduce corruption in our society the most aggressively malignant tumour eating into our vitals every day. We'll strive to send no-compromise-with-corruption candidates to the Assembly. They will certainly make mistakes, but will never betray Goa's trust. 2. We will never have any truck with the RSS philosophy or any other school of thought from any other religion that promotes bigotry, curtailment of individual rights and downright despicable communalism and divisive angry politics. 3. AAP will strive to rejuvenate in a genuine, selfless manner the vision of our founding fathers, particularly a certain Panditji Jawaharlal Nehru... a vision of inclusiveness, pluralism, scientific temper and genuine democracy something the Congress party, allegedly the repository of these ideas, woefully failed to defend. In sum, to all our detractors, many of whom are super human beings and would have been assets to AAP if only the sun goggles, you are unnecessarily using in the darkness were to be knocked off, let me tell you this. AAP-GOA is 24 carat genuine, it's got its heart in the right place, is frankly our last gasp hope. And whatever be the odds, it's never never going to give up on the good fight. ====================================================================================
