When there is pandemonium at the Gram Sabha meeting it
> quickly gets dubbed as 'anarchy' by urban elitist leaders of
> Goa Bachao Abhiyan fame. But when the State Assembly and
> Parliament is adjourned or disrupted for days on end, and
> all sorts of demands are made by the members, do they also
> call this anarchy? When decisions of the people do not
> conform with the ambitions and greed of the rich and famous
> or the real estate lobby, the Gram Sabha numbers make it
> undemocratic and the debates makes it anarchist?
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Soter D'Souza is fooling himself if he thinks that gram sabha disarray is an
"urban elitist" problem created by the "ambitions and greed of the rich and
famous". When I have a little time I will write a long post on exactly how much
a perversion of democracy these institutions are and to think that they could
be empowered to take decisions binding on the State is a frightening thought,
not to the "urban, rich and famous" but to the poor, disempowered,
disenfranchised and voiceless people of Goa.
best,
selma
