C.M is moving up The story that C.M is moving up is a welcome news, It is honour for Goans that for the first time someone from the our State is being recognized for a distinguished position. It is an admission of his talents that will find an opportunity to flourish at National level and duck like earlier stating health conditions, In fact there has never been concern about his health after working like a horse day in and day out
The only trouble with him is that he concentrated all functions in himself and did not encourage a second line of succession .Whether it was his inherent weakness or he believed in his indispensability is a matter of conjecture, which is much talked about. Everyone around him was content to live under his shadow and shelter .Naturally a vacuum is feared. That is not reality, as always someone takes the call Besides C.M has announced that he will not seek a second term and if he takes an u turn it will seen as lack of credibility politicians are known to change their course midway and explain and justify their actions in the best interests of the people they represent C.M may be perfectly comfortable of being a frog in the pond Gujerat has not been orphaned by P.M shifting to Centre, in fact he impact he has created at National and International level might have come as a pleasant surprise to himself and all others watching his meteoric rise to heights of statesmanship .His little known substitute in Gujarat politics has not come in for comparison or denunciation and there appears to be a smooth transition In Goa Mr Shripad Naik had been nursing ambitions to take on the mantle, if called to do so, Nobody can be tested unless cast into fire or thrown into water, But there is no trust between the two, in which C,M might feel displaced from the lime light he is used too, But the position at the centre will throw C.M in lime light, which has not envisaged. It is scaling upwards and one has to live behind in trust, that it is safe to have faith in his successor His opponents might heave a sigh of relief of his imposing personality, but it is a small price to pay to rise to a different level and more than that someone is reposing faith in his abilities, which chance may not repeat again, Gadkari has not taken kindly the cry for his heading Maharashtra politics The contribution of C.M will remain etched in the minds of grateful Goans .Best of luck C.M Nelson Lopes Chinchinim