FL: Dear Dear Jose, Would you know what is involved in getting elected as PANCH of the VILLAGE?
1. One has to go door to door inviting the prospective voters for a LADAINHA or a Birthday Party at your home ( if you are a KATLIC). Serve them in paper plates so that one can count the plates which btw are the votes. This exercise must be done 3 to 4 months in advance. 2. One has to lick-up the prospective voters each day even if you do not like him/her. 3. You have to promise them that their illegal activities shall be totally and completely ignored. 4. One has to be ready to make one's house an OPEN MAD HOUSE a month before the scheduled election. 5. On the D-Day, one has to organized 4-wheelers, 2-wheelers et al to transport all your propective voters to the booth even if they are perfectly fit to do the chore themselves. 6. One has to be ready to make a black face if a particular prospective voter has crossed the other side and publish his/her bad deeds, especially if one loses the election. 7. On the eve of the D-Day, one has to make rounds in the middle of the night to pass on Rs. 500/- or Rs. 1000/- notes to seal the votes. 8. And the last thing to do is not to go to sleep the night before but keep shuffling the voter's list to count one's votes. If found short, one has to knock on the doors to wake up the new prospective voters to seal the deal probably with double the amount mentioned above. 9. After all said and done, one has to PRAY HARD that ONE'S INVESTMENT and hard work remains SAFE. Because, if not, One is surely reduced to a LAUGHING STOCK so much so, one has to wear a dupatta across the face while moving around, at least for some time. There is no HONOURABLE DEFEAT ANY MORE with all these investments having been made. Therefore, FL does not want to get into this 'rut' of pleasing people because one can never accomplish this feat and because he can never go door to door to give the voters the massage that they do not deserve nor build castles in the air. For Your Kind Information, before you agree with peanut-brains, who btw are a plenty in Amchem Pixeamchem Moidea, you keep your basic understanding of FL whom you know very well in deed, that FL does not want to be the KING. FL is the KINGMAKER. BTW: you please tell the TWITS who make hay while the election-time is around that FL is in full charge of the present Panchayat of Moira without even having to disclose whom he voted for. One example is that FL has worked to defeat his own neighbour who was aspiring to be the SARPANCH and investing and running like a blue-arse fly everywhere BY ONE VOTE at the very last MINUTE turning all dreams to SOUR GRAPES. Everyone knows this fact but no one dares to talk about it. And BTW ask the twit you are responding to and who is putting these voluble suggestions as to what I should do, how many votes did his own in-house brother get in the last Panchayat elections and if he himself has voted for him. As for me, my record is around that I have gotten my own brother elected twice, not once, not only to the Panchayat, but also to the MOIRA COMUNIDADE. COMMENT: Excuses, excuses - Oh boy what a load of sarsaparilla! The superemo of Goa's party of the future cannot stand for elections because he has to organize a ladainha or two or three and stroke the voters - what a farce. Ossie Cordeiro a pure novice at politics won the Moira Panchayat Elections from Attafondem Moira with a thumping majority the first time he stood for elections and became sarpanch and Ossie has yet to give a single ladainha..,,,,, Excuses because I can guarantee you that you know who cannot get himself elected to the post of panch. What the people of Moira say: Taka kutro passun khavcho na. Ask any Hindu in Moira. If you can get your brother elected to two elections, this surely should be a cake walk, but sadly the electorate sees only excuses. What about the elections to the Vice Presidentship of the Associacao Academica de Moira. The Supremo's candidature was sponsored by the ruling panel. And yet how many votes did he garner? single digit votes. Another trouncing. So there you go - no ladainhas. Inspite of knowing about the 'licking' of the voters, still the superemo stood for assembly elections and as expected got trounced. The future is bleak - I see no SURAJ (sunshine) for Goa. Party superemos cannot win Parliament/ Assembly/ Panchayat/ Vice President elections. Goans will perhaps be all the better for it. -- ** "Tony de Sa" < tonydesa at gmail dot com > **
