The late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the late Minister Mathany Saldhana managed to persuade the minority community a couple of elections ago to vote for the BJP.
Even the Roman Catholic Church gave support to the idea. Why? The Congress party had gone on a looting spree which today is acknowledged as legendary and unstoppable! Has the Congress party reformed and learned from the inglorious past? Please correct me if I am under the wrong impression. Haven’t Digamber Kamat and Alex Sequeira been awarded Congress tickets for the next elections? Rahul Gandhi was here a week ago and there was a big show about making a new beginning and a lot about guarantees regarding delivering what is going to be in the manifesto. Also, the importance of participatory democracy and the need to consult with the stakeholder and voter. If these two old horses are going to be part of the group of representatives in the coming election then the Congress party is already in trouble. One is deeply immersed in the mining scandal and the other did nothing to stop loot by the party. Doing nothing about corruption, keeping quiet about it in a parliamentary system of government is no excuse. It does not mean he has a lot of political experience as he claims; it means he is not a responsible and clean politician contrary to his claim of having a lot of experience! Are these two going to be the frontline faces of the Congress party in Goa? If it is to be then it will be as great a tragedy as MLA Luizinho Falero joining the TMC. Will the Congress party president get the point? New and fresh faces have been promised even maybe a few never before seen faces. The Congress supporters do not want faces from decades ago! Is this a fresh new start? How does the party expect to get away with it? We are all aware of cosmetic surgery but can it work on these two old political horses? Senior Goa Congress oliticians please do not make a sincere man like Rahul Gandhi into some kind of a monkey or fool. He gave the people of Goa his word of good governance and a clean government. Some people say the BJP is even more corrupt than the Congress party. If true then it is not the way to come back to power by putting old people in the Congress political show window which will only remind the whole of Goa of the unbelievable corruption of the Congress in the past. Mr Girish Chodankar the party president might well go down in the history of politics as the man who gave the Congress party their last and final rites. Is this good or bad?