To Goanet - Tony de Sa wrote: >The figures given by Lionel Messias on the opulent indulgence of the >Ministers by way of their food, drink and air fare bills are a constant >source of amazement to me. . . >When there are people starving in India and even in Goa, when DSS >does not reach the needy, when villages cry for better roads, water supply, >electricity, such wasteful and ostentatious expenditure is a crime >perpertrated on the people of Goa.
Tony is, of course, right. I had mooted the idea of a PIL. A friend reminds me that there is a precedent at the Centre where, some years ago, a President's entourage on foreign jaunts was severely pruned following a successful PIL ruling. But don't count on anyone here. You will be in this alone. Should you initiate efforts in that direction, expending your own time & money, brace yourself for lots of useless advice, and the din of the usual vacuous noise-makers. The resident cut & paste maestro will accuse you of secretly conspiring to bring BJP back to power, the resident dissenter will dissent from behind her gates of paradise (or is it "corner of paradise"?), the resident "intellectual" will compose a sentence with the word "introspect" and beseech you to look at his droppings, ooops, I mean, "thoughts." But don't run them down, okay? Pecking at the keyboard is hard work, don't you understand? Warm regards, r