During the 2012 Goa Assembly elections Giriraj Pai Vernekar masqueraded as
someone apolitical in heading that massive media blitz campaign launched by
his NGO, Friends of Good Governance (FOGG) under the guise of a politically
neutral voter awareness and education. It was however later revealed that
the very wily operator Giriraj Pai Vernekar was for decades very active
with the right wing fundamentalist Vishva Hindu Parishad.

Not surprisingly after that 2012 election and on successfully fooling the
people of Goa the FOGG vanished with Giriraj Vernekar himself appointed as
Special Assistant in the office of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on a
hefty pay scale of a Joint Secretary where he was over all in charge of
negotiating deals and kickbacks in all major contracts. Besides he also
managed rather manipulated Manohar Parrikar’s Face book and Twitter
accounts on social media while generating fake ID accounts, that being his
area of expertise. Also appointed was Siddharth Kunkalienkar as Joint
Secretary to the Chief Minister on a robust salary of Rs 70,000 a month but
whose only job was to act as a dedicated collection agent for Manohar
Parrikar.

But in November 2014 after Manohar Parrikar moved to Delhi, after bypassing
Raju Sukerkar, Siddharth Kunkalienkar was very high-handedly anointed as
MLA of Panaji while Giriraj Pai Vernekar was airlifted to Delhi and
appointed as Deputy Director at the Confederation of Indian Industry to
look after areas of Defence and Space. This gave Manohar Parrikar his
trusted and skilled hand in negotiating all those under the table mega
multi crore defence deals.

In 2012 while asking people to Vote for a Change and liberate Goa from
misgovernance, the so called Friends of Good Governance (FOGG) through a
song highlighted various issues. Ironically if one hears that song today,
it is a stark reality of how BJP has taken Goa down the tube through all
its U turns, rampant corruption, nepotism and gross abuse of power.
https://youtu.be/NSYbt9TWOOs
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In 2012 we were all hoping that the promised ‘Parivartan’ would be for the
better. But every Goan belatedly realized that we landed from the frying
pan into the fire.

So now BJP hatao – Goa Bachao may be the only way forward to rescue a
sinking Goa from the current administrative anarchy and to restore
democratic values while preserving what little remains of our once
beautiful and tranquil State safely for posterity.

Aires Rodrigues

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