Political Mileage From Public Works
With the elections nearing, hot-mixing of roads in south Goa has started at a
frantic pace, looking at which, it almost makes me believe that it would be a
blessing to have elections every year ! Roads in south Goa are getting a shinny
black look and for a change roads are being tarred soon after the rains instead
of just before, thanks to the elections, our people will get good roads for a
longer period of time this year.
The PWD stands for Public Works Department and is funded by public money for
public purpose and is surely not a charity institution funded by any Minister
or bureaucrat. The Ministers may be allotted ministries by the Chief Minister
for reason best know to him but that does not give them the right to act and
think that they own the department by their birth right, to do as they please,
what they please and when they please. As ministers they should realize that
they are answerable not just to the people who elected them but to every Goan,
as Goans everyone has the right to a better life and better facilities and not
just a select few constituents.
Goan politics is in shambles at the moment and it will get only worse if we
keep on electing these ignoramuses over and over again. It's been proved beyond
doubt that none of these elected MLAs are capable of working for the cause of
Goa and Goans but they have already achieved their goal of joining politics,
they done what they set out to do and more. They have made enough money to last
them a few generations at the cost of Goa and Goans, unfortunately they are not
done with it yet and still continue to fool gullible Goans.
Conniving is an act that our Goan politicians have mastered to perfection over
the years. They will go to any length to draw political mileage, especially in
times of disasters, man made or otherwise. They are like the soaring eagle in
search of a morsel and when it locates one it makes a dive and goes for the
kill from any height, so to our politicians, a whiff of something and they go
for the kill, I mean for political mileage.
The stand off between the Banaulim MLA, Mick Pacheco and the PWD Minister,
Churchill Alemao is a typical example; the charade at the hot-mixing site
highlights the paucity of their inane mentality, each trying to take political
mileage of the public works that are in progress. In Benaulim the PWD Minister
has been hot-mixing roads in the presence of his daughter Valanka, who is a
potential candidate for Benaulim, as though the hot mixing is being carried out
with his or her personal funds, on the other hand Micky Pacheco has been
breaking coconut after coconut for public works that are in progress in his
(supposedly) area as though he has been paying for it from his own pockets. Oh,
how I wish they would break their own heads instead of coconuts ! Are we Goans
fools enough, to fall for such cheap crap and elect such imbeciles ? Or are we ?
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
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