On 26/07/07, Goanet News Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GOA'S CHOPPY HISTORY > > Defections and collapse of governments are regular features in Goa politics. > Goa used to have a stable government till 1990.
Well, have we forgotten history? Maybe the defections and toppling games weren't so regular then, but: * What about Bahusaheb's MGP men breaking away in the Sixties and the then CM wooing a section of the UGP? * What about the 1980s, when Rane continued in power for a decade, while at the same time being harassed continually by the group of dissidents then (Zantye, Shaikh Hassan, Mauvin, Narvekar?) > For the first time in 1990, > Churchil Alemao (the then deputy speaker) Churchill surely wasn't the deputy speaker then. He was a first-time MLA. > and Louis Proto Barbosa (the then > Speaker) put an end to the Congress CM Pratap Singh Rane's long rule in Goa > in a midnight coup. Luis was his preferred spelling. If my memory serves me right, it wasn't quite a "midnight coup". > The state has seen 14 governments in the last 17 years. > > The BJP's Manohar Parrikar formed BJP government by toppling the Congress > Govt in 2000. He won 2002 Assembly polls. But the Congress toppled his > Government in 2004 by engineering defections. The same Digambar Kamat, who > was number two in the Parrikar govt was the main defector. Wrong again. Parrikar ascended the chief ministership by toppling the man whom he had encouraged to defect, and had temporarily (for around a year) placed in the chief minister's chair -- Francisco Sardinha. Parrikar or the BJP didn't "win" the 2002 Assembly polls. They just emerged as the single largest party. What is the definition of "main defector"? Don't we recall, as Parrikar himself does, the role played by Atanasio "Babush" Monserrate in engineering the start to the toppling of his government? > Parrikar is now trying to hit back at his one time trusted friend turned foe > Digambar Kamat by engineering a midnight coup. All eyes are now on the > Governor S C Jamir, who is a Congress man. And to "hit back" he has to depend on another "one-time trusted friend turned foe" Babush Monserrate. Yes, Governors do play a crucial role in deciding who rules Goa. So did the BJP nominees when their party ruled at New Delhi. > http://www.ibnlive.com/news/goa-govt-on-verge-of-collapse-5-mlas-quit/45634-3.html FN -- Frederick Noronha Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: +91-832-2409490 M: +91-9970157402 Yahoo: fredericknoronha Skype: fredericknoronha GTalk: fredericknoronha 784, Sonarbhat, Near Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India
