To Goanet - Goa is now firmly in the gutter. The following two points may be noted.
One, Goans are sinking deeper with every passing day. Ghatis are being recruited left and right by Goa's politicians with the goal of rendering Goans politically irrelevant. Note that the political calculus in Goa is such that all you need are 2000-3000 ghatis in your electoral pocket to lock in victory. Assume a modest number streaming into Goa every day from Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, UP, MP etc etc. Upon arrival they are processed by agents of the MLAs, & handed ration cards. Then they are inserted into the voter rolls. Monserrate & co even make arrangements for accommodation (known otherwise as expansion of slums). This is voter fraud on an unprecedented scale - I wonder if even Bihar has this level of outright subversion of democracy. But then, what we have in Goa, indeed in India, is what my friend Dr. Atanu Dey calls "cargo cult democracy." That is, there is only the veneer of democracy; what actually prevails on the ground is goonda raj. Two, Digambar Kamat and his entire govt are robber barons, criminals who are openly stealing from the state, and inviting other criminals from all over India into the state to share in the loot. In the current situation, we have reached the limits of representative democracy. There is no law, no checks & balances, and the judiciary is a participant in this unholy enterprise. In the olden days, justice was served to these kind of scum with beheadings but we call ourselves too civilized to to contemplate such swift techniques. Our version of civilization is to sit by passively and watch our elected rulers screw us. r
