The order of the Supreme Court this week setting three months as the outer
limit for Speakers of Legislative Assemblies to conclude disqualification
proceedings was long overdue. As Speakers today are no longer non-partisan
the recommendation of the Supreme Court to set up a permanent Tribunal to
decide such cases is also a step in the right direction.
The Anti-defection law came into force in 1985 to deter the evil of
political defections by legislators motivated by the lure of office and
monetary gains. The intent of the law was to prevent corruption by way of
horse-trading.
Our Goa may be India’s smallest State but with this never
ending political circus has become a laboratory for every
possible political experiment and has been in the news for all the wrong
reasons. We have shown the nation the ways and means to circumvent the
Anti- Defection law, with political prostitution and party turncoats at its
very hilt.
Today Politics at least in Goa is no longer a mission, not even an honest
profession. It has been reduced to a scoundrel’s last resort. It has so
sadly become a ruthless business, with morals and ethics twisted beyond
recognition, thrown to the winds or long buried deep in the slush of
ignorance and thuggery. Politics is now a safe vehicle to swiftly rise from
Rags to Riches and a personal gamble rather than a calling or mission to
serve the common good. Politics makes strange bedfellows and it is this
chronic political prostitution that Goa has been witnessing. Even those in
the world’s oldest profession do it better.
There is no hope whatsoever that our polity and political turf will ever
improve. It is only further deteriorating and awfully decaying by the day.
The unacceptable antics and behavior of some of our politicians in recent
times has turned it into a despised profession and looked upon with disdain
and held in low esteem by the very people that they are meant to serve.
Our former Supreme Court Judges B.N.Agarwal and G.S.Singhvi had so very
rightly observed that even God cannot save our country from such
politicians. Amen
Aires Rodrigues
Advocate High Court
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