Please provide the name of any other politician in Goa who has a better administrative sense of long term perspective ( with reasons why you feel so ).
Dears, This MP to and fro stone throwing getting sicklier by the day. I think the best bet will be to wait it out for the next round of elections and see if MP, DK etc make it or not and then we shall talk about who will be Goa's CM. On the above line from Dr. Anand, my response is that none of the present-day or past (since 1961) politicians and political parties have or have had the long term administrative sense by virtue of spelling out 'good, transparent and satisfying administrative system that will be followed once elected to power to give the people the choice between various systems to be followed, indigenous to each politician and/or each political party. (we see this happening in the US of A with the ongoing primaries) Time has come for the people to demand such a spelt out system from all concerned and leave it to high winds the expectations over individual performances, however brilliant they might have been in the past, to perform in the interest of the people and the state. We have seen how the winds change directions once elected to the offices of power, best summarized by this age-old Konkani phrase ' ATAM MOJEM KAM ZALEM, TUKA MAR ZHOK'. [ I got what I wanted - may you now go to hell]. Let the people elected those who spell out the most likely 'administrative system' that is desired for Goa and who will aggressively standby its implementation as the prime responsibility and not play 'scrabble' once elected. We have had enough post-mortems on Scarlette Eden Keeling of late. Let us not have more on BJP, Congress or MP and DK etc to bore us to death. floriano goasuraj ---- Original Message ----- From: "anand virgincar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] MP and Panjim (was Why Manohar Parrikar is not CM today) Mr V Gadgil said : All that Manohar Parrikar DID for Panjim whenhe was in power was to indulge in his usual megalomania andbluster. He wanted to convert Goa into Singapore (which,incidentally, is a totalitarian police state). He dropped aturd called INOX on Panjim -- and did it at five times thelegitimate cost (where the rest of the money was channelled isanybody's guess). He wished IFFI on Panjim in perpetuity. Duringthe first year of IFFI, when he was in power, on the principle ofif-they-don't-have-bread-let-them-eat-cake he converted the wholearea into a circus, causing massive traffic jams and making life aliving hell for the residents. Mr P Thomas added : One thing that could be added to this IFFI litany is the mucking up of drains along the arterial roads during the crash (no pun intended) job. This created havoc the following year when there was a heavier than normal monson. MP cooly washed his hands off of this by blaming the latter and the people of Panjim swallowed the line without demur! I concur with the view that MP may be afflicted by megalomania. At least he lacks an administrative sense of long term perspective badly needed in Goa and would not be suitable as a CM unless there are severe checks and balances on his headstrong actions.
