Dear Melvyn, You are obsolutely right that good guys contesting elections is almost ruled out bcos of lack of funding. But no individual or party has ever displayed intent to cleanse our rotten political and administrative system. A good individual can become bad subsequently due to lure or bad advisors. But what if we can have systems, such that even a bad guy would not be able to act bad. Let us take an example: Bad regional plan was crafted by bad people three years ago. GBA acted (more important: not merely twitted, wrote or advised) to get it scrapped two years ago. But this scrapping was done by intervention of the new CM (an individual), who wanted to build his image as a good guy. Over a time he created his image and had firmer hold on his chair. He then started diluting his commitment for a good regional plan. GBA has branded him as lier and are trying their best to pressurise him again to revert to the good regional plan. The constitution has given us remedial system: The judiciary. But judiciary is too slow particularly in Goa. One reason could be that almost all efficient advocates are entangled in mining web. It is this mining from which the current political disposition draws its wealth and clout. Due to huge fees paid by mining companies the fees of advocates have sky rocketted just like huge funds required to contest elections. So for all good guys: Cannot cotest elections (no legislative say) and cannot hire efficient advocate (no judicial remedy). All this because costs of both have gone high due too much money in mining, without commensurate efforts, investments, risks or Know-how. Now coming back to having systems such that even a bad guy cannot act bad. I feel this is the need of the hour. Any suggestions? Rajendra Kakodkar 9822101450 On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 Melvyn Ferrao <melvyn.fer...@gmail.com> wrote Subject: [Goanet] Why boycott elections or contest them? Message-ID: <m2v3b3a5eb51004282032x63e9843ah1202a371b3887...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I think the possibility of Camillo contributing to Samir Kelekar's election fund is zero. That is true not only of Camillo but of everyone involved in cribbing about current politicians. If any of these people start out to contest elections, they will themselves manage to gather no funds. This means everyone of these guys will boycott elections but will never contest them. So for eternity we will have people daringly stating that all politicians should be drowned. This also means we will have a bad government like the current one over and over again for us, our children and their children. What would be worthwhile is to unitedly go for the better alternative party which has proven themselves in Goa in the past instead of boycotting elections. Melvyn Ferrao Agacaim
