Will the results of the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections be any different in Goa? At present it looks as if the same rascals will be back in the saddle. As long as it remains a fight between Congress/NCP and BJP with UGDP playing monkey in the middle, goa's future will continue to be grim. It is not the case that there are little options for the voter to choose from, but the real question is whether the goan voter ever desires to drive home a point to both those national parties that have been playing the fool since the early 80's. A crisis in morality, a lack of risk taking for change and absence of political maturity is at the crux of goa's problem. The noises of the people about Ali baba and his 40 chors and casinos,.and cidade......is not to be taken seriously. A lot of it is merely for public consumption. The war cries at Azad maidan would most likely materialise into dinner party's at Clube Vasco, mariotts or Cidade. What may be presented to you in the living room may be entirely different from what has been actually cooked in the kitchen. In the present circumstances more honest contestants in the fray will only result in increasing the mess no matter how upright the candidate. As long as people do not do their arithmetic properly opportunistic politicians will keep keep floating ideas about the need for popular activists to jump into the election fray ultimately obtaining just the desired result. These political ideas floated around villages are not indegineous but are hybrid varieties marketed by none other than the regular wholesalers and traders in goa's politics. Their products appear so attractive like the BT cotton but ultimately only leads to no where like the greedy and foolish cotton farmers who land in debt and ultimately suicide. Who will ever care to listen. The ways of the world have not changed from the times when they stoned the prophets and refused to turn from their destructive ways. For goans the pastries coming from the concrete kings and mineral farmers of margao will continue to be more attractive and tasty than those coming from SHGs. The goan society is like that of the Israelites who were in search of a deliverer but landed up being trapped by the scribes and pharisees into not accepting the Truth.
