Margao's first Scheduled Tribe Chairperson Ms Piedade
Noronha of Ward # Fatorda was ousted after a four
months. Notwithstanding the fact that in a surprise
move a few days ago at the height of the communal
tensions at Curchorem Sanvordem she embraced the
Nationalist Congress Party. Dr Wilfred De Souza NCP
President Goa, Deputy Chief Minister and MLA Saligao
was overconfident that now that Ms Noronha had joined
the NCP she would not be unseated. His argument was
that the NCP INC forms a coalition Government and
therefore none would dare unseat her. Unfortunately
the die was cast and the expected happened Elections
to the new Chairperson will follow next week as per
tentative information recieved.
Ms Noronha unfortunately had teething problems on day
one when the intercine war between the CO and
Chairperson broke with the CO refusing to kow tow to
the dictates of the Chairperson. True the initial
group of four which formed the ruling group with the
tacit support of the 8 BJP councillors split over
several issues until Ms Noronha was left alone to fend
for herself.
With this sort of political chaos the civic duties of
the MMC suffers and citizens are put to grave
inconvenience. It is observed that most of the time
is engaged in meetings in confabulations and the media
sitting for hours in the Chairpersons office.
There is a demand from the citizens that councillors
should be given just one hour to deal with civic
matters and let the administration function. They
could use Saturday's and Sunday's for such manoeuvres.
In any case the Press should not be allowed the
freedom to use the Chairpersons office as a recreation
room post siesta.
GODFREY J I GONSALVES
Borda Margao Goa
98221585854
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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