Unfortunately, even educated and intellectuals take too much time to realise that all politicians are the same - Power is the motto. Why to use such words as muck etc against some parties against which a particular person feels aggrieved? Many people will use the same for the present parties in power.
There are so many ills in our society. Violence against women, child marriages, pain of young widows, street children, young girls, boys and women beggars, proliferation of drugs amongst the young, family planning, education of backward classes for elimination of reservations at least in foreseeable future. Have we heard of any political party, that are the largest organised institutions in the country, ever working for elimination of these ills. For that matter even RSS, which is said to be a social and not a political organisation, is not known to work in an organised way towards elimination of these ills. Each of these political parties and their affiliated "social organisations" come forward to give volunteers for electioneering, support for Reservations but do not work towards elimination of these ills that are pulling back our society.
R.N.Malhotra
Former Chairman Railway Board
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On Sun, 2/14/16, Vidyut <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] A PANCHANAMA OF BJP's FOUR YEARS IN OFFICE
To: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net" <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Date: Sunday, February 14, 2016, 1:43 AM
@
Ravindran PM
I hope you
realize you're dumping Vajpayee into the Congress
muck.
Jokes apart, the
point is to measure achievements against claims. No one had
forced BJP to make promises it cannot deliver. If it is not
possible to "clean 60 years of muck" (as though
the country achieved nothing till Modi), then BJP could have
promised what it could do - which is the idea of election
promises, no? BJP hadn't promised to "clean 60
years of muck" - nor does it seem to even be interested
in starting, it had promised specific actions, which it did
not deliver, as Aires Rodrigues pointed out. I fail to see
the utility of generalizing very specific evaluations into
some mumbo jumbo that ends up somehow blaming Congress. If
BJP cannot govern a place ruled by Congress before, it might
as well quit politics.
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at
11:00 AM, Ravindran P M <raviforjustice@gmail.com>
wrote:
There is no doubt that your analysis is bang on
target. But to be fair to NaMo and BJP, do you think it is
possible to clean the muck accumulated by the thugs,
scoundrels and traitors of scamgress in 60 plus years of
their reign? Will transplanting the head make all the
difference to the total personality of a person. Poor NaMo,
he could not even avoid taking Jaitely, discarded by the
electorate in no uncertain terms, into his cabinet! Do you
think that such provisions in the Constitution are in any
way good for democracy? I am personally of the opinion that
our Constitution is a big bundle of fraud! Law makers with
no prescribed qualifications or qualities, clerks with
continuity but no accountability and utimately the judges
who combine the worst of both worlds (except for having a
qualification in law) but made even more worse by totally
irrational and undemocratic laws like contempt which place
them not only beyond all laws but even from democratically
legitimate scrutiny!
regards
ravi
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:23 PM,
Aires Rodrigues <airesrodrigues1@gmail.com>
wrote:
Election promises
cannot be like China-make goods which come neither with a
guarantee nor
warranty. As the BJP in Goa will
soon complete four years in office it is time that we, the
people, audit its
performance.
This government has to be
assessed on the 'Goa Vision
Document 2012-2017', released by the Party in the run-up
to the March 2012
Assembly elections and its acts and deeds over the last four
years in Power with
a never ending string of U Turns and the reneged promises.
On having classified
the Palm as Grass, less said the better.
On March 9th
2012 Manohar Parrikar took over as Chief Minister by
burdening the State
exchequer with those Rs.11 lakhs unnecessarily squandered on
that pompous
swearing-in ceremony on SAG grounds at Campal rather than
the customary modest
one at Raj Bhavan. And were the best and brilliant from
amongst his MLAs chosen
as Ministers?
In its 'Vision Document' the BJP promised that
Annual Performance Reports of every government department
would be prepared and
publicized. This has not happened. Also promised was
participatory governance
at village level as envisaged in the 73rd and
74th
amendments, which too, has not seen the light of the day.
Promised was a new
Agricultural policy to make agriculture a more rewarding
effort but all that we
witness today is the continued sight of fields and hills
being converted to
concrete jungles. We were assured a new regional plan
keeping in mind Goa's
identity, but there is no plausible progress in that
direction while a selected
coterie of builders are having a field day with
constructions mushrooming
everywhere without a provision for basic infrastructure of
electricity, water,
parking, sewage and garbage disposal.
To ensure regular, uninterrupted power supply the
BJP had promised that the whole of Goa would have
underground cabling in five
years and that the State would be plastic-free in three
years which has also not
happened. It is almost four years and the promise that a
garbage management
system would be in place in 18 months is still a distant
dream. The government
has miserably failed in its promise of 12 hours-a-day
uninterrupted drinking
water within two years. Also not appointed is the promised
Minority commission.
Contrary to the 2012 assurance, the
six-lane Zuari Bridge was not a priority. Let the government
enlighten us as to
how many Non-Resident Goans (NRGs) it has encouraged and in
what manner, for
Goa's development, as promised in that Vision document.
The BJP has only played
to the gallery on the issue of Special Status but has done
nothing to control
the alarming and unacceptable levels of migration into
Goa.
We were assured that
in three months garbage strewn along the roads would be
cleared. Apart from a mere
cosmetic exercise on some roads, the garbage situation
statewide has instead
turned critical with even the beach cleaning contract being
a multi-crore scam.
The BJP has not had the spine to even deliver on its promise
of banning plastic
bags.
Escalating level of crime is a matter of grave
concern while political interference in police functioning
is turning Goa into
a lawless State. The promise to get rid of the Casinos from
the River Mandovi
was another joke.
The BJP had promised that Professionals and not
Politicians would head Corporations and other bodies but to
our utter dismay, all
the Corporations have been loaded with political cronies,
some of whom carry
woefully tainted.
Various schemes launched to pay doles and build
vote banks are in bad taste. Welfare measures cannot be
treated as gifts of the
ruling party but have to meet the needs of the deserving.
Even on the Medium of
Instruction (MOI) issue there has been an oscillating volte
face.
While in the Opposition the BJP had always vociferously
criticized the
wasteful expenditure of Ministers and MLAs on unnecessary
travel, especially
the foreign junkets, but over the last four years the
current Ministers and
MLAs have been jetting around the world
recklessly, while draining an already depleted the
exchequer.
With so much hype on
e-governance, Goa's bureaucracy is bloating by the day.
Despite the current
financial crisis, the BJP has been s hiring thousands more
to accommodate his
party cadres. One of the first decisions by the BJP on
taking over office in
March 2012 was to hike the fees of the Advocate General
Atmaram Nadkarni from
Rs five lakhs to a whopping eight lakhs a month. Despite the
hike Atmaram
Nadkarni has continued to be the legal Messiah of the Mining
Barons, Casino
Lobby and the Builders.
In his first budget
speech in 2012 the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had
assured that every
Department would implement e-governance within 18 months.
Sadly, most
government websites are dysfunctional or remain not updated
for months. The 'aam
aadmi' is now paying much more for every
government service. Even the fee for registering a Power
of Attorney
which was earlier Rs.50/-, shot up to Rs.500/-.
Despite having been
given a clear mandate, the BJP has been unable to deliver on
the 'Parivartan'
that it promised by way of Good governance and Zero
tolerance to corruption.
Rampant corruption continues unabated. Scams continue
galore. What has changed
is only the identity of the agents, brokers and
beneficiaries. And we are
without a Lokayukta till the BJP finds a pliable one!
Last year Manohar
Parrikar left Goa and passed on the baton to Laxmikant
Parsekar but every Goan
will vouch that it has been four dismal years of confusion,
contradictions and
controversies. This may sound like a requiem but that, is
the unfortunate
ground reality. During the 2012 election campaign, Manohar
Parrikar had
promised us the moon but reneged on almost every promise. He
used every trick
under his sleeve to usurp the office of Chief Minister. We
thought he had
learnt from his past mistakes and would turn a new leaf.
Sadly, it was not to
be. It was the same old Manohar Parrikar, puffed up with
added arrogance
and highly allergic to any criticism.
His one remarkable achievement is of having stifled
the entire voice of the Opposition. Through his trademark
tactics he successfully
caged and grounded most Opposition MLAs. Surprisingly, to
Parrikar's credit
goes the fact that many of the otherwise vocal and proactive
NGOs have also gone
comatose.
With elections due
within a year, we have had a very pompous Carnival and an
equally colourful
Shigmo will follow. But this is a sign of bad governance -
when a State
sponsors fun and frolic when its coffers are empty. The
government has been on
a borrowing spree. How long will it be able to sustain such
lavish spending?
We are reminded of the
words of Manohar Parrikar in his first budget speech of
26th March
2012: "Speaker
Sir, the election results made me speechless, and now is the
time for me to
speak and assure the people, that the faith and trust they
have put in us,
shall be responded and honoured in multiple"
But the BJP has not honoured the faith and trust
the people of Goa reposed in the party. The actions of the
government speak for
themselves. We were hoping that the
'Parivartan' in 2012 would be
for the better. But the question that torments the common
man today is "Have we
landed from the frying pan into the fire?"
Aires
Rodrigues
Advocate
High Court C/G-2,
Shopping ComplexRibandar
Retreat,Ribandar
– Goa – 403006
Mobile
No: 9822684372
Office
Tel No: (0832) 2444012Email:
airesrodrigues1@gmail.com Or airesrodrigues@yahoo.com
You
can also reach me on
Facebook.com/
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