If we take Floriano's logic that "NGOs are all about making business and furthering their own causes rather than of Goa and Goans at some point in time," it would be right to believe that the GRA is also of the same mould. Floriano wants to straddle two stools, but he risks falling in between them. He also tries to have the best of both worlds. So Floriano wants to "render all NGOs out of work by drying out their resources which comes from potentially impotent ruling political parties which are in perpetual circulation." As far as I know, the Su-Raj party is "impotent" in Goa's political field. This so-called political party that seeks to show itself as an NGO can definitely give ulcers to political observers. In my dictionary, a political party is nothing but a political party and an NGO is nothing but an NGO. Mix them up and you create an unpalatable dish. The GRA has not yet won the people's hearts and minds. I don't know what tomorrow will bring for this newest baby on the front of NGOs fighting to save and preserve Goa. I have said before that with so many NGOs in Goa, Goans have been served a good alphabet soup. Goans can take their pick which NGO they want to support and which NGOs they want to throw in the dustbin. It seems that item no 1 has been framed conveniently to allow -Raj party or any other political party that does not have a representative in the assembly. Why did it not say that no representative of a party which contested the elections should be allowed to be a member of the GRA? Floriano's only qualification to be part of GRA is his failure to win an assembly seat.. I have no axe to grind against the GRA. I only pointed out what I thought was a folly on having the secretary of a political party, in this case the Su-Raj Party, as the secretary of the GRA.
Eugene Correia
