The Constitution of India envisages that the bureaucracy has to be absolutely non-partisan. Government offices should never have been places to unload party cadres. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has yesterday publicly admitted that all government jobs are being given to BJP workers.
Infact after coming to power in March 2012, Manohar Parrikar had in the name of cleansing the system swiftly cancelled appointments of hundreds of government employees made by the earlier regime. But over the last two and a half years despite the state coffers being in doldrums Manohar Parrikar has had the audacity of recruiting thousands by creating a route to infiltrate his party cadres into the administration. Merit has been no criteria. The advertisements and the selection process is a mere formality with the chosen candidates identified much earlier. Ironically with crores of rupees being spent on e-governance the size of the bureaucracy should have been actually halved but it has been bulging by the day and has almost reached 60,000 which is extremely steep for a small state like Goa. The now saffronised Goa Government Secretariat at Porvorim has virtually become the BJP headquarters. It only remains to officially switch the tricolor by hoisting the BJP party flag. 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