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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:44:57 -0800 (PST)
From: pranab saloi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] From the Sentinel
To: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Dear Chan Mahanta
Please help me out of this group!!!!! I am sick of
it. I just logged into it once by mistake and now its
not leaving me. I begged everyone, I did everything I
could to get out of this stupid site but to no avail.
Its blocking my inbox like hell!!! Everytime I log
in, I get whole lot of shit in my mails. I dont know
who has all the time to write so much shit and that
also so frequently. I guess you all guys out there
have no jobs except writing stupid mails. So please
spare me and get me out of it. I am requesting you
`cause I get the maximum mails from you and one more
cranky guy named Ram Sarangapani. Please help me!!!!!
Next time I get one more mail, I will make sure that
you all guys get to hear the choicest of gaalis and
that too in assamese. So if you want to spare
yourself, get that stupid admintrator of your site to
look into it. Thank you once again. Bye. And by the
way, please have a check on the trash you guys write
sitting in US of which HELL. I never knew you guys in
US had so much of free time. Do something better
instead of all that crap
Pranab
--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a juicy one :-).
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Goa - a Symbol of Wider Malaise
Inder Malhotra
What has gone on in Goa over the last few days is a
shame not only
on that tiny and
notoriously unstable State but also on the country
as a whole,
especially on its political class. To say this does
not absolve the
actors in the sordid drama in Panaji from blame, but
the depressing
fact remains that the Goa goings-on are a symbol of
a wider and
deeper disease afflicting the entire polity. Sadly,
the way things
are going the chronic malaise looks like becoming
incurable.
To put the matter bluntly, every political party,
big or small,
without any exception whatsoever, has become the
perpetrator of a
twofold perversion of the democratic system. In the
first place, all
political parties have conspired to destroy any
respect for rule of
law, constitutional niceties and political
proprieties. The
objective of each one of them is to win the
election, by hook or by
crook, and having done so to hold on to power any
way it can.
Consequently, by a cruel quirk of irony, the ruling
> doctrine of the
world's largest democracy has boiled down to the
monstrosity that,
as in love and war, everything is fair in the
> struggle for power.
The second element in the political perversity is
the unfailing
adherence by every political formation to double
standards. When in
the Opposition, every party pretends to be
high-minded about
democratic norms and their inevitable violation by
the ruling party
or combination. But when in office and power, the
same party or set
of parties does exactly the opposite of what it
preaches during its
years in the wilderness.
Witness the loud protests by the BJP leaders,
headed by the party
president, Mr LK Advani, against the "murder of
democracy" in Goa
and their exhortation to the people across the
country to rise
against this "crime." Equally remarkably, the
Congress that had
raised hell against similar actions by the BJP-led
Government in New
Delhi in the past is busy justifying its ugly
action in Goa. Indeed,
it is cursing the Goa BJP for having "thrown to the
winds" all
democratic values and conventions.
This having been said, it must be added that the
scandalous
developments in Goa are not without a specific
flavour of their own.
For one thing, Goa has disproved as complete
nonsense the widespread
belief that the phenomenon of aya Rams and gaya
Rams or the brisk
sale and purchase of legislators is confined to
States like Haryana,
Bihar or UP that are illiterate, caste-ridden, poor
and known for
cosy partnership between criminals and politicians.
Here is Goa,
with 98 per cent rate of literacy and a relatively
high standard of
living, and yet its political record is as abysmal
as that of BIMARU
States.
Indeed, in some respects the performance of Goa's
politicians is
worse. In Bihar, for instance, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav
has ruled for 15
years either directly or by proxy from behind his
wife's Chief
Ministerial chair. In Goa, during the same period,
there have been
15 different ministries. The underlying reason is
the precarious
balance between the two principal parties - the
Congress and the BJP
- compounded by the proclivities of splinter
parties and
Independents to make hay while the sun shines. As
so many have
already underscored, the previous Ministry was
brought down by the
self-same Mr Manohar Parrikar, the dismissed Chief
Minister who is
busy decrying his unfair removal. An IIT graduate,
he had a rather
good reputation so far, especially compared to the
newly appointed
Chief Minister, Mr Pratap Singh Rane, but no longer.
For, Mr
Parrikar has been an unabashed accomplice in the
gross political and
constitutional wrong committed by the Speaker, Mr
Vishwas Satwarkar.
To say that the manner in which Mr Satwarkar first
threw out an MLA
and then so manipulated the proceedings as to
reduce the "floor
test" of Mr Parrikar's majority to a farce would be
the
understatement of the decade.
So far, so bad, and one can even understand the
Congress party's
indignation against Mr Satwarkar. But nothing can be
more ridiculous
than the Congress' absurd claim that after the
Speaker had committed
the "original sin," the Goa Governor, Mr SC Jamir,
only "did his
duty" in instantly sacking Mr Parrikar and swearing
in the Congress
party's Mr Rane as Chief Minister. The period of a
whole month given
to new CM to cobble a majority seems rather
generous, compared with
the Governor's earlier insistence that Mr Parrikar
could not be
given 72 hours to prove his majority in the
legislature and that
this exercise should be completed within 48 hours.
The role of the Central leadership of the Congress
and that of the
Union Government has also been dubious and
deplorable. In fact, it
is no exaggeration to say that at every step the
Goa Governor
appeared to be acting at New Delhi's dictates, as
always in the past
whenever the ruling party at the Centre has chosen
> to oust a State
government of a different party or combination. The
> presence of the
Union Minister, Mr Priya Ranjan Das Munshi at the
Raj Bhavan in
Panaji all through the Goa vaudeville speaks for
itself.
It is also obvious that some legal brains were hard
at work in
devising the plan to remove Mr Parrikar. For had Mr
Jamir taken
recourse to Article 356 to get rid of the BJP-led
Goa Ministry, the
Union Government and the Congress would almost
certainly have
courted double trouble. One, to get the
proclamation under this
Article approved by the Rajya Sabha could have been
problematic.
Secondly, and more importantly, the Supreme Court
would have
immediately invalidated the Governor's action
because it runs
palpably counter to the apex court's long-standing
judgement in the
Bommai case.
The Governor's invocation of Article 164 of the
Constitution and
withdrawal of his "pleasure" from the Parrikar
Ministry is also an
arbitrary violation of the Constitution. But so far
the higher
judiciary has had no occasion to adjudicate this
kind of misuse of
the Governor's powers. The Congress is thus smug in
the
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