After a thorough discussion and deliberation with my supporters it was
today unanimously decided to support the Congress candidate Surendra
Furtado at the ensuing Panaji by-election scheduled on February 13th.
The Independent candidates Sameer Kelekar and Sadanand Vaigankar are
undoubtedly very respected and credible persons with integrity. However in
the current scenario Surendra Furtado is better poised to defeat Manohar
Parrikar’s handpicked puppet Sidharth Kuncalienker. The voters of Panaji
must unitedly and fearlessly ensure that Manohar Parrikar’s candidate is
resoundedly routed as a mark of protest to the gross acts of omission and
commission committed over the last three years in particular by the former
Chief Minister.
The Panaji by-election is an opportunity to censure Manohar Parrikar for
eroding democratic values and subverting freedom of speech. Manohar
Parrikar as MLA for the last twenty years has high-handedly fooled the
people of Panaji and taken them for a ride.
Manohar Parrikar must agree to an open debate on what he has achieved for
Panaji over the last twenty years as MLA and the rampant corruption and
nepotism of the last three years. Manohar Parrikar has miserably failed on
all counts by being unable to even cleanse the awfully sewage loaded
stinking St Inez creek. The high-handed never ending concretization of the
Miramar- Dona Paula Road is an example of how Manohar Parrikar has got his
priorities wrong. Garbage disposal, parking vows and other pressing issues
grappling the city have been conveniently overlooked.
The people of Goa had in 2012 ousted the Congress and voted in the BJP
because of their tall promise of a Parivartan by way of Good governance and
Zero tolerance to Corruption. But people across Goa are today utterly
dismayed and mourning that they have sadly landed from the frying pan into
the fire.
Manohar Parrikar after all his rampant corruption, nepotism and U turns has
left Goa in an utter mess only to slip off to Delhi to be the Defence
Minister. At this Panaji by-poll there is need to put Manohar Parrikar’s
dictatorial, dubious, vindictive, and intimidatory tactics to an end.
Aires Rodrigues
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