Election Fever
With elections at our doorstep, I can't help but think what the result will be, will anything change for the Aam Aadmi irrespective of who comes to power ? Campaigning is at a feverish pitch, while the doyens of dexterous debate from all sides, we have been hearing "roti kapda aur makhan" for too long a time, to believe it will happen this time round, India shining image begged a public rebuttal at the last election, will "a mandir for Ram" work for the old fox this time? Or will the "pseudo secularism" of the Congress work for them all over again ? Who will genuinely carry our electoral clout ? This campaign has seen the worst of battles and mud slinging, so much so that, the election commission had to intervene and reprimand a good number of our elite personalities, like the referee in the boxing ring, but so far, no party has managed to convince the general public by way of substance. Most of our politicians with their outmoded ideologies have lost touch with the present realities. The great Mulayam Singh who thinks computers are man's worst enemies and English language should be banned, is supposed to be one of the top political leaders of India, if we have some more of these jokers, then God help India. Have our political thinkers in Goa analyzed what the Aam Aadmi wants ? The Deputy Speaker and Cortalim MLA Mauvin Godinho has suddenly realized that the CRZ is a contentious issue, the Congress Party at the centre was responsible for the CRZ farce in the first place, it was introduced to protect hotel owners and took immediate action by bringing in the CRZ notification and the reason given was, to protect the coastal residents from natural disasters like the tsunami. The truth being loads of hotel owners money had changed hands. But now the coastal residents are up in arms, so our pathetic ministers and MLA's have no choice but to face the people. If Congress was so worried about the well being of the people why was this notification issued in the first place ? After all these years Mauvin thinks only Congress can solve the CRZ problem, and that regional parties are in no position to do any thing constructive, Congress in all probability should solve this problem, since it's the Congress who had ostensibly conceived this illegitimately conception. If according to Godinho, this issue can be resolved immediately then why the delay ? Secondly how many non Congress MLA's from regional parties are ministers in the Congress government in Delhi and Goa as well ? It is the Congress who has been dividing Goa in the name of secularism and creating vote bank politics, and now that the people of Goa are fed up with the Congress and would like a change Godinho thinks Mathany is a BJP agents, How many BJP agents are currently in the Congress government at the moment ? Mathany is not the traitor, it is the Congress who has nurtured and harbored traitors, like himself. Where was Godinho during the Orissa carnage or the problems in Mangalore or rest of the so called secular Congress from Delhi or Goa ? Did any of them even whimper ? Now just at the dawn of election Godinho wants to propagate his support for the oppressed and the victims of the carnage. If BJP were guilty of abetment, the Congress was definitely guilty of not just non performance and lack of foresight, but of failing to uphold the secular fabric of the Indian Constitution, it's not jut the Orissa or the Mangalore issue, even the Babri Masjid issue where Congress failed to stop or protect the interests of the minority community and they have the audacity to call themselves secular. I only hope and pray that we Goans make use of the God given commonsense and send both the central parties packing and vote for genuine Goa loving Goans and save Goa Freddy Agnelo Fernandes -------------------------------------------------------- The content of this electronic communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and any others who are specifically authorized to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or otherwise placing reliance on the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful in certain legal jurisdictions. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. -------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________