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From: floriano
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Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Wanted urgently: Panchayat pre-election pledge - Letter to the
Editor - GT- 16.11.09
Joao Barros Pereira is very much on the dot for wanting a pre-election
pledge signed by the candidates contesting Panchayat elections and I
congratulate him for his foresight. Though such a pledge is the need of the
hour, any/all candidates will be the first ones to grab such a paper and put
their signatures on it because the first thing in their minds is to win.
After the elections, the pledge will be flying high in the winds and nobody
to bother about it.
But there is a way to make this pledge fruitful, and I have been promoting
this idea in my village [Moira]. Perhaps, Moira will show the way in the
next Panchayat elections.
Villages must gear-up for Panchayat elections on 'PANEL' basis by
short-listing possible candidates ward-wise to bring them on the village
development panel. For this, a crystal clear village MANIFESTO is a must,
complete with the PLEDGE, and equally a must is that each candidate must
accept the Manifesto and the pledge. Once the candidates are finalized, the
entire village campaigns for the panel with all candidates choosing a common
symbol. In a village like Moira with 7 wards, if it is not possible to get
all the candidates elected, it is possible to have a Panchayat GRAM SABHA
FRIENDLY and resistant to the curse of 'NO CONFIDENCE MOTIONS' if only 4
panel candidates are elected.
The ideal situation for a developing village is that the Panchayat and the
Gram Sabha must be on very friendly terms and not antagonistic to one
another as in 99.999 per cent of the Panchayats in Goa.
Considering that the Panchayats are the nuclei of the state, the development
of the state depends on the good relations of the Panchayat bodies with
their respective Gram Sabhas.
Considering that the 'ward' is strong, the village becomes strong. If the
village is strong, the constituency becomes strong. If the constituency is
strong, the State becomes strong. And if the State is strong, the Country
becomes a fortress of strength.
This is the philosophy on which Goa Su-Raj Party is built upon. However, the
Party is of the grounded belief that elections to the self-governing bodies
like Panchayats and Municipalities (including elections to Student bodies
in educational institutions like College and University Campuses) must be
strictly fought on non-political party lines. Sadly, this does not seem to
be happening in the State of Goa and no one seems to be bothered about this
democratic plague.
Floriano Lobo
Gen. Sec. Goa Su-Raj Party
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
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Communalization of politics has serious consequences
for culture of governance. It is when a party fails to
provide good governance but still wants to gain or
regain power that it plays the communal card.
Communal politics is, thus, a threat both to our
spiritual heritage from the past and our well being
in the present.
Swami Agnivesh
