> From: "anil desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Fwd: Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today...and > will
> You say that the pro-Parrikar campaign is getting desperate. You must be > living in a fantasy world. Look at the current political situation in Goa. You are missing the point. You are reeling off a litany of sins of the Congress government. I have no issues with that, being no defender of their activities and sins of commission and omission. You will note that I mention that the 'whitewash Parrikar' lobby is obsessed with showing him in good light. And that they project their problems onto others. What I mean is that they assume that criticism of Parrikar/BJP means defending the Congress. Just because they are pro-Parrikar/BJP does not mean that those who are anti-BJP are pro-Congress. There is little to choose between the two parties on matters of governance. Parrikar had enough time to prove his abilities, and cut a sorry figure, not far removed from the kind of figure the Congress governments cut. Corruption continued merrily. Political opportunism continued. Etc. So if you are trying to say that Parrikar/BJP are better in these respects, sorry, but the argument does not hold water. > So, Mr Gadgil. do your worst as you have consistently done with respect to > Sanvordem- Curchorem troubles. Desperate situations such as the few I have > mentioned above ( land scams excluded) do need desperate measures. No, no, Mr Desai, it wasn't me who did my worst, it was the BJP and other communal forces who put in the performance at Sanvordem-Curchorem. Even the magisterial enquiry report by the North Goa Collector has enough stuff to show their role. The Collector clearly indicates that it was malicious rumour-mongering that was used to incite the violence. Every authority has indicated that there was no presence of 'outsiders', armed or otherwise. But the BJP and co. spread that rumour systematically and used it to ignite violence. Ask Parrikar's blue-eyed boy, Sharmad Pai Raiturkar, why he gave a false complaint about presence of outsiders. Ask Ramrao Desai why he said the same thing. Ask Parrikar himself why he said this at a press conference. All these chaps, and sundry others, were on various Goan newschannels spreading this canard. Further, as the Collector points out, it was only BJP leaders who tried to arrange the release of the miscreants who had been arrested, clearly indicating their affiliations. There is video footage of MP going to the police station with cheering crowds to arrange the release of these hooligans -- all this while violence is actually going on in the area. I won't go on about all this, all the information has been in the public domain for the past two years, if people want to play ostrich-with-head-buried-in-the-sand, that's up to them. > I agree with Anand's essay and his analysis of the current political > scenario in Goa. However, I disagree with him on his conclusion. I have no > doubt at all that bab Manohar Parrikar will be the chief Minister of Goa > again and just as he did last time, he will do his utmost to clean the > administration. I too disagree with Dr. Anand. MP could very well become CM of Goa again. And at that time, if it comes, let us hope that he does his utmost to clean the administration -- only thing is, let us hope that he does not do it 'just as he did last time', because that was a sorry spectacle. Last time, he left it muckier than ever and also succeeded in injecting a good dose of communalism into the administration, as has been well documented, particularly in the case of the police, and in his handover of government primary schools to the RSS. Incidentally, as Sandeep Heble has pointed out, he's still Panjim MLA, isn't he? Why is it then that all of you absolve him of any responsibility for the mess Panjim is in. Rajan Parrikar wants everybody to get involved in cleaning up Panjim -- well, he could start with his MLA. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
