CM BE FAIR TO EVERYONE Stephen Dias, Dona Paula
A few days back a Goa-Mumbai Air India flight was stranded due to logistics reasons and frantic passengers of the same phoned to the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant who immediately intervened and the flight took off amidst great fanfare in which the stranded passengers profusely thanked the Chief Minister for his immediate intervention. This was a good deed done by the Chief Minister, however the Chief Minister does not do anything to ensure that commuters travelling by bus reach their destinations on time. Thousands of bus passengers all over Goa are delayed and have to reach their offices late as private buses in particular as also Kadamba bus services do not keep their appointed timings. The CM should immediately intervene and set this anomaly to rest. Also recently the CM while on his entourage tour along the Mandovi noticed a man throwing flowers after completion of his pooja and he stopped and asked him not to pollute the river Mandovi. However, the CM has never acted on the fact that the six off-shore casinos have been polluting the river Mandovi with discharge of garbage and sewage that has led to the Mandovi becoming starkly toxic. The CM should ensure that the six off-shore casinos are immediately shifted out to sea or brought on land as this is a measure long over due. Also keeping a round the clock track to observe any sewage or dirt thrown by casino staff/passengers on the river Mandovi will be a difficult task. Interestingly also BJP President Vinay Tendulkar stated to the press that 10 Congress MLAs wanted to merge en masse with the BJP led government leading to speculative sensationalism and this proved to have been false as the Congress GPCC President Girish Chodankar met all the 15 Congress MLAs and found that none of the MLAs had wanted to switch sides. Will the BJP president stop making statements devoid of credibility for the sheer sake of sensationalism? Goliath was the giant who ultimately fell to the intelligence of the sling wielding David. The God of Small Things should keep his eyes wide open to those who are being discriminated against and set things right. Double standards are morally demeaning and in the long run will hurt. Probity in public life should benefit everyone, big and small. Sent from my Samsung device