On 2 November 2010 15:57, U. G. Barad <dr.udayba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forty year youngster Rahul Gandi while speaking at AICC meets said 'I have > understood two things clearly. First is that it is only the poor people > who > can take the country forward. . There are two Hindustans - one is growing > very fast and the other is for the poor (which is in crisis).... We have to > connect and unite the two'. I wander which Hindustan Goans belong. Do any > Goanet member has the answer? > > Read more at: > > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Only-Congress-can-unite-two-Hindust > ans-Rahul-Gandhi/articleshow/6859545.cms#ixzz148myD6hx<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Only-Congress-can-unite-two-Hindust%0Aans-Rahul-Gandhi/articleshow/6859545.cms#ixzz148myD6hx> > > > Best regards, > > U. G. Barad > RESPONSE: Perhaps Goa has the answer and is showing the way forward; may be this will help? :- BJP routed in Margao HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, NOV 1 The BJP suffered a complete rout in the elections for the Margao civic body with candidates owing allegiance to the Congress emerging victorious in the hustings. This is the first time in the last decade-and-half that the BJP will have no representation in the Margao civic body. Candidates backed by Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat, GPCC General Secretary Vijay Sardessai and other Congress leaders won the polls with ease. Of the 20 candidates who made it to the civic body, Arthur D’Silva, who won from Ward No 1 with a handsome margin of 625 votes, said that he is an Independent candidate and owes no allegiance to any political party or leader. BJP leaders including two-time Councillor Narayan Fondekar, and the face of BJP in Margao Rupesh Mahatme, besides BJP Fatorda Block President Durgadas Prabhu bit the dust in the hustings. Candidates supported by the BJP including Piedade Noronha in Ward No 3 and Purnanand Chari in ward No 8 also lost the polls. On the other hand, the candidates fielded and supported by Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat and GPCC general secretary Vijay Sardessai won the polls with comfortable margins. In the Fatorda area of the civic body, Sardessai overcame a stiff challenge to his political career from his detractors, as three of the four candidates – Bertha Cardozo, Joseph Silva and Gonzaco Rebello — fielded by him made it to the civic body. The fourth candidate Angelis Pereira lost by a slender margin of 35 votes at the hands of two-time Councillor Raju Naik, who claimed support of the Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat, Panchayat Minister, Babu Azgaonkar and BJP MLA Damu Naik. The husband-wife duo of Sadanand and Babita Naik won the polls in style from the Gogol Housing Board area, defeating BJP candidates. Senior Congress leader and former minister, Luis Alex Cardozo’s son Tito emerged victorious from Ward No 9 over BJP Block president Durgadas Prabhu by a margin of 10 votes. In the Margao area of the civic body, Congressmen or Congress backed candidates won all the 11 seats at stake. Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat backed candidates in eight wards registered comfortable wins, while Goa Pradesh Youth Congress vice-president Pratima Coutinho backed by Churchill Alemao-Vijay Sardessai-Monica Dias combine and former MMC Chairperson Doris Texeira backed by Vijay Sardessai and Nitin Naik won from Colmorod and Khareband wards respectively. Outgoing Margao Congress Block President Dayanand won the polls from Sirvodem ward, where the Chief Minister had publicly appealed to the people to vote and elect former councillor Zarinha Shah. Incidentally, Chief Minister-backed candidates won with ease in eight wards of Margao assembly segment, defeating candidates fielded by the rival BJP. Chief Minister’s cousin brother Laxmikant Kamat won from Ward No 18 by a huge margin of 485 votes. BJP leader, Rupesh Mahatme who had contested from Ward No 20 after his Ward No 15 was reserved for OBC, failed to garner the much-required votes to defeat Kamat-backed candidate Damu Shirodkar. While Damu polled 617 votes, Rupesh had to be content with only 355 votes, losing the seat by a margin of 262 votes. In Ward No 13, the Chief Minister’s candidate Rosy Pereira got the better off the candidate fielded by the Azgaonkars and the BJP. While Pereira polled 643 votes, Azgaonkar backed candidate Shazia Sheikh polled 423, while the BJP candidate Leena Katkar polled only 238 votes. A glance at the polls results would suggest that the electorate has voted for new faces by rejecting a number of sitting councillors, including Raju Shirodkar, Livramenta Barreto, Ramdas Hazare, former chairpersons Piedade Noronha and Johnson Fernandes, Narayan Fondekar and Majusha Kaskar. http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%20News/BJP-routed-in-Margao/42523.html QUESTION:- Do you have any views as to why the BJP were trounced so severely? Does the populace prefer corrupt governance or does it prefer corrupt governance cum Communism? 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