All the MLAs must display some spine and unanimously pass a resolution in the ensuing session of the Goa Legislative Assembly which begins on July 27th condemning the conduct of their colleague jailed Nuvem MLA Mickky Pacheco.
In a letter addressed to all the 39 MLAs it has been pointed out that the people of Goa have been silently and with a sense of deep anguish and shock, watching a sordid chain of events unfolding over the last three and a half months in the ongoing saga of the Nuvem MLA Francisco Xavier alias Mickky Pacheco. The MLAs should not lose sight that their colleague Mickky Pacheco as a Minister has been convicted of a grave offence of having assaulted a public servant doing his duty. The fact that a law maker Mickky Pacheco also went absconding for over two long months hoodwinking the Law and then carrying on his misbehavior in jail over the last six weeks can also not be overlooked besides that he also lied while feigning his mother’s illness to seek a parole which he has now withdrawn after being exposed. The stoic silence of the MLAs on the issue of Mickky Pacheco making a mockery of the law is deafening. Do the MLAs condone all that the Nuvem MLA has done? The current scenario demands that all the MLAs speak out their minds so that people of Goa don’t lose faith in democracy and public service. There is a need to keep convicted Mickky Pacheco while in jail away from the Legislative Assembly to ensure it is neither defiled nor degraded and its dignity lowered by allowing an MLA undergoing a jail sentence to attend the Session of the Legislative Assembly. Allowing Mickky Pacheco to attend the Assembly session would not only send a very wrong message to the people of Goa but also shake people’s faith in democracy itself. Any attempt by Mickky Pacheco to seek fresh air outside the jail walls under the pretext of attending the Assembly Session must be strongly opposed. Infact Mickky Pacheco’s absconding for two months, his gross misconduct after surrender, his now contemptuous statements against the Courts and the alleged undue pressurizing of Junior Engineer Kapil Natekar to compromise the assault case are all valid grounds to warrant enhancement of his Jail sentence. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires