Dear Editor/s Please urgently this letter may kindly be published. Regards Stephen Dias Social Worker 9422443110 Resident of Dona Paula 17th Nov 2021
MINORITY COMMUNITY AS GOOD AS BEST Stephen Dias, Dona Paula The statement made by the Aam Aadmi Party's deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia that he AAP is willing to give the deputy chief minister's post in Goa to a minority community candidate is an affront against the minority community in the State. Though the minority community is just about 25% of the electorate in Goa, still minority community candidates are as good as the best in the State and thus no lines of distinction should have been drawn. Any minority candidate who is sincere, hard working, intelligent and possessing integrity and high degree of probity in public life is capable of becoming the chief minister of Goa. In fact, minority community have been doing yeoman service to the entire people of Goa with a very high degree of distinction. The minority community in Goa cannot be taken for granted. It is to be stressed here, that the Trinamool Congress Party has in very clear terms asserted that credit will be given to merit and skill. The TMC is more of a party which appreciates merit and skill and thus why should the TMC not be given support by the minority community if the TMC is not discriminating against any community. Goa has not had a minority community chief minister for a long time and it is not that minority community did not deserve. Its time there in a level playing field immaterial of the community that you belong to.