In their utter disgust with the misrule of the BJP in Goa, the people are frantically reaching out for (what they perceive as) a saviour government.
Either there are no options or they are being fooled by the Congress party into believing all their problems will be over if Rahul Gandhi’s party takes over. Looking at their candidates and considering their thoroughly corrupt track record in the rest of India post independence and post their first generation leaders, there is nothing to indicate that the Congress will, if it wins power, treat the Goan population any better than the BJP did. Of course there will be an absence of stirring communal disharmony, but to be generally fair to the Goa BJP, they wisely kept off that minefield. So what has the Congress to offer? Simply put, nothing. Like a new broom they will for the first few months try to sweep clean the most obvious undesirable results of BJP rule, but after 6 months when they are well settled in, it will be back to the old corrupt ways. So what’s the option? Not much appears on the horizon really, St Francis Xavier’s special care for Goa notwithstanding. Roland. Toronto.
