-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Gurudatta,
CONGRATULATIONS TO RUPA and the man who stands solidly behind her in this foray into politics, Gurudatta!. When I posted the email below on the various Net groups, some people thought I was mad. BINGO. It was rather accurate. Both the ladies whom I expected to lose, did lose. I expected Rupa and Ryan to win. They did. I am not into politics...but I like good people to win. It is upto them to remain good...or turn bad and face defeat the next time round as their predessors did. We have a majority of new faces in MMC. It is always nice that way. New brooms sweep the cleanest. ----- Original Message ----- : "Miguel Braganza" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote To: "Goanet" <goanet@goanet.org>; Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:28 PM Subject: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: Jo jeeta woh Sikander! > The good councillors , who have the good of their ward residents and their > town are few and far between. They may not be modern day Raja Harishchandra > types, but they served the local interest most times. > The non-performers are ,obviously, one-time councillors. No one will vote > for them. > > It is in the new faces that one has hopes where a good councillor does not > exist. At the very least, they will take time to become corrupt as compared > to the 'experienced hands.' > In the toss between a proven turncoat who has served one or more terms [and > shifted sides more than once to be on the ruling side] and a new face with > proven management capacity, whether affiliated to a political party or not, > the logical choice of the voter should be the new face. Party affiliation is > no big shake in a municipality . > One of these two young ladies is facing stiff opposition from a dynamic > office bearer of the GPCCI, who has set up her election office in the same > building as the senior hand in the MMC. The other has the son of the former > Chairperson and Congress man to fend against. It may well be a 'Oktober Fest' at Mandarin on 25 October! .................................................................. I wish Rupa all the best. May she become the Chairperson of MMC. My mother was offered that post in the 1970s. She declined because she had seven of us children to look after and two of us were still in school. She made the sacrifice and only accepted the Vice-chairmanship. No regrets in any of us. Rupa has no such responsibilities. She can go the whole hog as Ms Phyllis Faria did before her. Mrs. Faria was also nominated as an MLA while Goa was part of an Union Territory. That is no longer possible in Goa State. May Rupa win and become an MLA, sooner rather than later. The electorate is sure looking for a new face in Mhapsa....a person who remains in one party, even if it is in the opposition for the full five years. The Assembly elections are not too far away. Viva Goa. Miguel