Luizinho Faleiro’s sudden abandonment of the Congress Party has make a lot of Congress men and women scratch their heads; people without hair are known to be uprooting the fews strands of hair remaining in utter shock at his betrayal of the Congress Party.
His blind loyalty to Sonia Gandhi is now there for all to see as advocate Aires Rodrigues loves to say; and this time, in its absence. “I could not say no to madam,” he has said more often than I care to remember. Has he now forgotten Madam Sonia Gandhi? Old age, senility or lack of gratitude? Several stories are going around in the eateries and watering holes in Goa regarding Luizinho Faleiro’s stabbing of the Congress Party and, in particular, Sonia Gandhi in the back. Another version of his betrayal is the theory is that he is plan B of the BJP and his job is simple: join the Trinamoon Congress Party and give this new party a punch in the stomach, weaken it as he is someone who has a great reputation as a very corrupt politician and so there is bound to be a backlash. In this way, the TMC party that he has joined will lose a good percentage of voters which will benefit the BJP and other parties. Divide and rule. The late BJP Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar never tired of talking about Mr Luzinho Faleiro’s overnight meteoritic rise from rags to riches. If Mr Faleiro is not suffering from Alzheimer’s disease he should have no difficulty recalling it. Some people claim he is confident Congress will win but fall short of a majority and the closest ally which shares similar secular values is the Tiramoon Congress Party. Enter Luizinho Faleiro for the seat of Chief Minister. He has no other rival assuming the coalition and voters in Goa want a Goan. There, however, is a challenger in Digamber Kamat but then going by reports and history Madam who is a Roman Catholic would rather back a Roman Catholic horse than a Hindu. Politics, and Goan politics in particular, is a pig sty. There are a variety of pigs, more than you are likely to find in Animal Farm. They love to roll in the muck - it gives meaning to their lives. Wait and watch!
