Re: [Goanet] Moti Dongor demolitions

[Edwin/Diana Pinto]

It is hardly surprising that the Moti Dongor demolitions have agitated 
Francisco Sardinha. After all, it is in a manner of speaking, demolition of 
a carefully cultivated Congress vote bank.  These allegedly illegal 
encroachments on public and communidade land took place on the Congress 
government’s watch. As Mr. Sardinha and GPCC Minority department convenor 
Mr. Pathan have rightly pointed out, the affected people will be hard hit by 
the onset of the monsoons. Therefore, it is only fair and just that they be 
accommodated on the vast and extensive properties allegedly amassed by the 
Congress party satraps during their long and merry reign over the Goan 
bureaucrats and masses. And since Mr. Pathan has practically admitted that 
the “so called illegal” has been converted into legal by concerned 
authorities, it is only right for us Goans to demand that that all these 
water and power connections, ration and voter cards etc. be investigated and 
cancelled forthwith by the present government as a first step towards 
bringing back the rule of law in the state. Mr. Sardinha and Mr. Pathan have 
now made it abundantly clear who their party is and has been actually 
representing in the past.

And if the Congress government let the bureaucrats run amuck by “turning a 
blind eye to the structures during their tenure”, then Sardinha is only 
admitting what the Goan voters rightly understood this last Assembly 
elections - that the Congress party does not and never did have what it 
takes to govern and administer Goa. For bureaucrats who grovel at the feet 
of their political masters, the attitude of Sardinha and Pathan in throwing 
all culpability on them, should serve as a grim lesson that they should 
build their careers on the strong foundations of duty, honesty, integrity 
and sincere service rather than sycophancy and characterless boot licking.

- Diana Pinto