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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A recent photograph showing Chief Minister Digambar Kamat feeding Mrs. Victoria Fernandes a sweet piece of cake on her 75th birthday was not very tasteful. Not because the Santa Cruz MLA is a diabetic but a better birthday gesture by way of a cabinet berth for Victoria would have been befitting. In recent years even after going on a hunger strike luck seems not to have favoured Mrs. Victoria Fernandes in her pursuit for a cabinet post. Maybe being in and out of the Congress party has worked to her detriment. Last time around the crumbs of Deputy Speaker and Chairmanship of Goa Handicrafts Corporation were craftily handed over to her and she willingly fell for the bait. Digambar Kamat can visit all the shrines and deities but may never be forgiven for not having given a cabinet berth to the lone lady MLA in spite of professing the ideals of women empowerment. In 2007 he gave Victoria Fernandes cabinet status by way of a parliamentary secretary post only to revoke it in a few months. That cabinet status would have been washed away by the High Court order anyway. With her term as MLA coming to an end in less then three years and she having made it public at the last election that it would be her last, Victoria Fernandes should now focus on trying to find a young, educated and dynamic development oriented successor to carry the Santa Cruz constituency forward. It is hoped that she will look beyond her family to find the right person to rescue the constituency out of its dumps as it continues to be one of Goa’s most neglected. Aires Rodrigues Ribandar
