-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For entertainment in Goa one does not have to watch a movie at INOX or a drama at Kala Academy. The Victoria Fernandes - Babush Monseratte show will be on for sometime and nobody knows how many acts this drama will entail and which is evidently being directed by former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar from behind the scenes.
Santa Cruz and Taleigao are neighbouring constituencies and the ongoing saga now in words may soon spill into the domain of money and muscle flexing power. A bullfight of sorts. Out of power the BJP in Goa is in dire straits. It wants to do everything possible to destabilise the Congress Government. It has found Victoria Fernandes a convenient medium who disgraced herself wants to find a face-saving and convenient exit from a party in which her days are numbered.Victoria Fernandes has anyway never been a loyal Congress person at heart. She has been in and out of the Congress party whenever it suited her in the quest of power and position. What the people of Goa should be aware and concerned of is that the BJP is using Victoria to try and ensure political instability while it also uses its fundamentalist RSS forces to play mischief with crosses and mosques so that there is also communal unrest amongst Goa's communities. We are witnessing a two pronged approach to instill chaos by a party that justcannot accept it is not in power. Victoria has mixed onions and potatoes and understandably has managed to get the support of persons who have an axe to grind with the Congress party. She is trying to inflict as much damage to her party while the Congress leaders watch the tamasha. In a way she is biting the hand that feeds her by using government vehicles and machinery to plot against a government which she is part of by virtue of holding the constitutional post of Deputy Speaker. As one watches the drama unfold Victoria Fernandes is doing most of the talking while Babush Monseratte just watches and keeps his nerves in place. Victoria has dubbed Babush as a child. Did she not feel so when she, along with other MLAs were housed in this "child's" mansion at Taleigao while they plotted the overthrow of Parrikar early this year. Victoria as Chairman of North Goa PDA did nothing to exclude rural areas from PDA. She also did nothing to prevent buildings mushrooming on fields. Where then does her new found love for Goa's greenery and ecology come? A real life drama. Over the last few years the ageing Victoria Fernandes has not been keeping good health and has always used this as an excuse for not been able to attend to the development of Santa Cruz Constituency. Where then does all this new found stamina to agitate comes from, one wonders? BJP induced steroids, I guess. Aires Rodrigues ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com