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Hey guys, excuse me for my poor Hinglish, my mother tongue is still Konkanim. I am having great time reading your emails specially the ones on elections. Everyone has the right to share his own views on a candidate or a party, however biased or honest he/she may be. In my opinion, most of the articles are biased, which you may disagree. What is not right is to discredit people because he/she may be supporting a candidate which you do not like or vice verse. It appears that there are lot of people in this forum who support Congress whose leaders are very corrupt. May be because this forum is mostly catholic. I agree there are lots of opportunities for the Catholics if Congress comes to power. They will have easy access to the ministers to bribe them to do their dirty work. Imagine if there was no Congress in the last 2 years. What would have happened? I hate to say it, but catholics need corrupt people in power to survive because corruption has become part of our culture. Save Goa Front led by Catholics was formed to serve as an alternative to Congress; many of its candidates are contesting elections for the first time. I would have imagined that Catholics would be happy to support this new party. But no, they want to vote for the corrupt. They will not even vote for the independents, some of whom are honest persons. Why vote for them when they will not do our dirty illegal work. It only confirms that corruption is now embedded in our DNA. It does not matter that Goa lands are sold to outsiders by the corrupt politicians in the form of Regional plan or SEZ, etc, as long as my wishes are fulfilled. Goa already has sizable portion of migrants that prompted former PM Deve Gowda's party (Janata Dal) to field 2 Kanadigas for the elections, and even went to the extent of demanding Kannada as a second language, though he later back tracked. But he has already poisoned the minds of the migrants. It is only a matter of time that Kannada will be a second language. It is also amazing to see that some people who supported GBA protest on Regional Plan 2011 are now supporting Congress. What happened? Very soon, Goans will be ruled by the migrants, thanks for the voters who led us there. J. Miranda ------------------------------------------------------- Goanet recommends, and is proud to be associated with, 'Domnic's Goa' - A nostalgic romp through a bygone era. This book is the perfect gift for any Goan, or anyone wanting to understand Goa. Distributed locally by Broadway, near Caculo Island, Panjim & internationally by OtherIndiaBookStore.Com. For trade enquiries contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------
