In a civilized society 'gender' does not matter when it comes to
contesting the legislative assembly posts or posts to any of the
self-governmental positions like the Municipalities and Panchayats. And Goa,
by most, is considered to be a civilized society (unless one takes into
consideration that our so called civilized society has allowed the migrants
living in self-made slums to creep into the electoral rolls ad nauseum )
Those who contest elections to public offices, do so because they consider
themselves worthy of that challenge. It does not matter if it is a 'man' or
a 'woman' [there is no record to show that a woman is inferior to a man,
except when it calls for bloodying a colleagues nose, throwing furniture
around and ripping off of the public address system in the house during the
assembly or parliamentary sessions :)] and therefore, by virtue of this
reasoning, the Goa Su-Raj Party totally disagrees on the point of 'seat
reservation to women'. And how the 33 per cent formula is arrived at, is
altogether as perplexing an exercise as the reservation policy itself.
To give an example, in my village of Moira, there are two (2) Panchayat
wards out of seven (7) which are reserved for women. Out of these two
wards, one elected ward member can be said as a forward looking woman,
though much is left to be desired. But the other ward has elected a proxy of
the husband who could not contest due to the reservation as the women ward,
a ward that he has nursed like a baby (read vote-bank).
Therefore, the point that I am making is simply that those men who cannot
contest in the 'women only' ward have no other alternative but to field
their wives, daughters, daughter-in-laws ... what have you and the merry go
round goes ahead without making an iota of difference.
If Goa Su-Raj Party can help it, it will de-reserve every state legislative
assembly constituency as well as all reservations including the
reservations to OBC, et al because with reservations and quota systems,
instead of we becoming progressive we regress to the point of absolute
inefficiency and ineffectiveness in governance which solely depends on
effective laws rules and legislations. And for this, we must have elected
members who are independent of mind and not proxies to their relatives.
In the last Panchayat Elections, I had proposed to our village that we
set-up an 'all ladies' panel and get all ladies elected to our Moira
Panchayat. But this suggestion did not take a bite but a lot of interest was
generated. Since Goa Su-Raj Party is totally convinced that all Village
Panchayat and Municipalities should go in for 'panel' system of elections to
bring in Panchayat and Municipal elected bodies which are 'gram sabha
friendly' rather than have them fighting with gram sabha members, which is
the general trend in Goa. Individuals get elected on their own discardable
manifestoes or no manifestoes at all and VOILA.... the loot and plunder goes
on as that member can be bought by the local MLA or the Minister. And if
that is questioned...... we have no-confidence motions galore. Therefore the
Village or a City 'panel' will have a Village or a City Manifesto and the
panel members will be obligated to go by the manifesto on which they have
been elected or face the flak.
To conclude this vile topic of reservations, the Goa Su-Raj Party is open
for a dialogue to field 'women candidates' in all the 40 constituencies of
Goa Legislative Assembly in the coming 2012 General Assembly Elections to
elect the 'ALL WOMEN GOA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY' or an attempt to make this
possible and be the first Legislative Assembly anywhere in the WORLD to
enter not only the LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS but the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD
RECORDS.
Any takers GOA ??????
Cheers
floriano.l...@gmail.com
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM [The Battle At Kruger]
www.goasu-raj.org
PS: We have already identified at least half as many worthy women candidates
to fill the house of 40, that is, if only each one does not say "I DON'T
LIKE POLITICS' when the time comes to put the right foot ahead.
:-))
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabe Menezes" <gabe.mene...@gmail.com>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 4:17 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Yet another faux pas by Goa's Chief Minister!
Goa CM's sexist remarks anger women activists
IANS
*Panaji:* Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat's statement urging women not
to
join politics and not fall for the "33 percent reservation" bait has
invited
criticism from the women's rights lobby in the state.
Sabina Martins, former member of the Goa State Commission for Women and
convenor of the renowned civic NGO Goa Bachao Abhiyaan, said Kamat's
comments at a public function Saturday smacked of sexism and callousness.
