Everyone needs to read 'Civil society is an elite project' by Dunu Roy on the website infochageindia.org which is reproduced in Herald today. That will explain GBA's pathetic state and the glorification of the elitist contribution to Save Goa. The thousands of villagers who marched to Azad Maidan were months later accused of being anarchists by the very same mascot of the elitist forces of Save Goa. Rajan Parrikar has in fact contributed nothing great to Goa. He was not on the Infotech Development Corporation pushing the development of IT Park in Socorro. Neither was this Rajan the convenor of GBA, he was just a photographer who happened to be around at the wrong time and the wrong place. He was there to take some shots of the Jt. Convenor (South) of GBA arguing on behalf of the Chief Minister of Goa with the GBA delegation led by then convenor Oscar at Mahalaximi Residence in Altinho, Panaji when they went to demand for the withdrawal of clearances to Aldeia de Goa. That was loyalty to GBA isn't it? Now as reported in herald today, the former chairperson of the Task Force and advisor to CM Mr. Edgar Ribeiro claims that the Village Plans first need to be sent to the District Planning Committees. He was the guru of those in GBA abusing others to the extent of going physical insisting that spatial planning was not the mandate of Village Panchayats. The guru of planning has forgotten the day when he told several of us to either be content with what we are getting or get nothing as that's how the government works. Just 12 months later Infotech becomes corrupt and Regional Plan process becomes illegal. God save our Goa for the elite in coma. The aam janta like us are the fools to watch this cabaret show.
-soter
