----- Original Message ----- From: Goa Su-Raj Party To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:28 PM Subject: RE: Your Editorial of May 10, 2006 captioned 'Offices of Profit' FOR KIND ATTN. MR. ARUN SINHA
May 12, 2006 To, The Editor, Navhind Times, Navhind Bhavan, Panjim-Goa. Dear Sir, Subject: Your Editorial of May 10, 2006 captioned 'Offices of Profit' This is to inform you that the Goa Su-Raj Party wants you to know that your above cited editorial is much appreciated, particularly, when you say: Quote- It is imperative in the greater interest of the polity and country that senior politicians publicly express shame for these violations. It would be highly improper on their part to make a legislation to protect politicians currently holding offices of profit. Unquote Sad to say but the politicians that you are calling on above are not likely to show any shame. Rather, they will fight like cocks to maintain what they have themselves worked hard to lavish on themselves. The reason we are writing to you on this excellent topic of 'Offices of Profit' is because this insignificant Party, for all practical purposes, did think in terms of eliminating the 'Offices of Profit' w.r.t. the elected representatives of the people which were seen as out of place in a DEMOCRACY. There were several brain-storming sessions which took place in Panjim, starting with the International Center, Dona Paula, in January, 2000, not to form a political party, mind you, but superior citizens of Goa were invited to take part in these sessions in order to identify key reasons why our Goan politics was becoming more and more self-centred so that something could be done about it by us as electors. The catalyst for this getting together was Francisco Sardinha, who not only exited from his long standing Congress Party but also took the RSS-BJP of Manohar Parrikar into confidence to take a seat of the Maha Office of Profit. And when we say that superior citizens were invited, Mr. Srinivas Dempo was prominently placed on that list of invitees, whom we believe to be the Owner of the Navhind Times. The key reasons having been identified in these painstaking, lengthy and inconvenient sessions, the main being the inferior 'Offices of Profit' by way of gifts of Chairmanships to MLAs who counld'nt secure Cabinet berths, these Cabinet berths being the superior 'Offices of Profit' , both of which having been tackled suitably i.e. one having been completely eliminated and the other cut to size, it was felt that there would be no takers for these, and it would be a waste of time to push these down the throats of our politicians. Therefore the Goa Su-Raj Party was born to give teeth to these master slayers. You will have noticed that a lot of stringent electoral requirements have come forth since the year 2000 from the Election Commission of India and are continually improving. The first is the requirement that candidates mandatorily file their affidavits declaring their assets, liabilities and criminal antecedents. During the 2002 Assembly Elections, this requirement was not around. But when the Goa Su-Raj Party fielded eight candidates in these elections, all candidates were required to file such affidavits as the Party's requirement. And copies of these affidavits were sent to the Election Commission of India, New Delhi, for information. The Party also made sure that its Constitution was sent to the Justices of the Hon'ble Supreme Court besides the Election Commission of India where-in the Articles 34 (Cabinet size of 5), Article 38 (No Chairmanships to MLAs) and Article 41 ( No Amendments) were high-lighted. And the Goa Su-Raj Party will not be wrong in taking pride in believing that however insignificant the Party may be or thought to be, it has shown the way for better governance, good governance having been rubbished to no end with the likes of "India Shining' of late Pramod Mahajan of the RSS-BJP. Our sole intention in pointing out these things to you as above, is for you to know the reason why we appreciate what you have rightly said in your excellent editorial. It simply sums up to "where there is will, there is a way" Thanking you, for Goa Su-Raj Party. Sd/- Floriano C. Lobo Gen. Secretary/Spokesperson Copy to: Goanet; The Goan Forum. Copy to: www.goasu-raj.org _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)