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From: floriano
To: TOI
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Anna Hazare says the path of politics is full of dirt - GSRP
Comments
October 2, 2012
To,
The Editor,
Times of India - Goa Edition.
Panjim-Goa.
Sir,
Subject: GSRP comments on Anna Hazare's views on POLITICS.
Today is the birth anniversary of M.K. Gandhi, in whose footsteps Anna
Hazare projects himself as moving. However, he does a great dis-service to
his Guru, Gandhi, when he says that the path of politics is full of dirt.
[TOI - 2.10.12 Page 10 ]. Gandhi knew very well of this and therefore
took up the shovel to cast this dirt aside and move on. Has Anna Hazare
forgotten this great sacrifice? If Gandhi was alive, and if he had anything
to do with the drafting of the Constitution of the INC, things would be
quite different and Anna Hazare would have no opportunity to say what he is
saying.
This Party has been put on the roads some 12 years ago, and still striving
in the direction to clean up the dirt which has been drowning GOANS, more so
of late, in the understanding that POLITICS NEED NOT BE DIRTY. IT CAN ALSO
BE VERY CLEAN. So said, this understanding has given prominence to the
SHOVEL that will clean the dirt away in it's draft constitution w.r..t. the
Articles 34, 37, 38 and 41. This party is all the way with Arvind Kejriwal
seeking to form a new political party. Our blessing are with him. Hopefully,
he will include the SHOVEL in his new party's draft constitution so that
the party may sit back and relax, without over-burdening themselves at the
Executive level, to see who is doing right and who is doing wrong. When the
SYSTEM which is put in place after much deliberations and foresight, there
is no scope for MANIPULATIONS, and whether the person joining the Party is
clean or dirty does not arise. This is where Anna Hazare is WRONG. This
Party is of the utmost belief that if the intensions of the founders of any
political party are sincere and CLEAN, these must be reflected into the
constitution of the party and it must be made sure that these clean
intension remain over a long long period of time ( in the case of GSRP the
clean intensions are protected vide Art. 41 of its constitution where no
amendments to these Articles are allowed, as these are sealed for life of
the party as not amendable).
Anna Hazare must know that the path to activism is fraught with
mal-intensions, where crucial battles with the political class are withdrawn
for appeasement. It is a well known fact that no NGO, no Activist can resist
the pressures exerted by the powerful political class at all times as every
one has a price, high or low. We say ' at all times' because there are
activists, maybe even Anna Hazare himself, who will not bow down to any kind
of pressures. But there are ample instances when the NGOs or activists have
withdrawn from the court battles at the crucial moments by not being present
in court when the cases are called out, thereby getting cases dismissed for
pecuniary benefits.
Therefore the punch line that this Party wants understood is that Anna
Hazare is WRONG and Arvind Kejriwal is RIGHT.
To illustrate this we shall fall back on the slogan that M K Gandhi has
himself coined.
Quote
BE THE CHANGE THAT YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD
Unquote
And, BTW, this party is using this slogan on it's printed letter-heads.
Sincerely,
for GOA SU-RAAJ PARTY
Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
General Secretary & Spokesperson
Address: 383A Pirazona-Moira-Bardez-Goa-403 507
Telephone: Mobile: 9890470896; 9422060347 - L/line-Fax: (0832) 2470223
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.goasu-raj.org
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Goa Su-Raj Party strongly believes that Parliamentary Elections must be
contested by National Parties only AND/OR by a Federation of State
Regional Parties.
with a reciprocating understanding by the National Parties that the 'State
Elections' shall be the prerogative of State Registered Political Parties
only. Even then, and in the absence of such a ruling by the Election
Commission of India, GSRP would want GOANS who are ERUDITE,
knowledgeable about India and its problems, as well as World affairs,
'STATESMEN/WOMEN' , to contest on it's 'TICKET' in the coming 2014
Parliamentary Elections. Let GOA endeavour to send two real Parliamentarians
to the House of the People in New Delhi for once.
