Manohar Parrikar needs to realise he is now in the big league. His tongue-in-cheek or foot-in-mouth humour will not do him nor the country any good. His apology of a successor only subscribes to the belief that he was in fact shunted out of Goa since he wasn’t toeing the BJP ideologue of ‘development’. After all, the BJP election promise of shunting the offshore casinos which bring in questionable money besides heavily polluting the Mandovi, was never going to be in sync with their grand ‘development’ design.
Bosco D’Souza, Verem
