1. Redesignate LSD and heroin as anti-inflammatory drugs, and make them available over the counter at the infamous beach belt.
2. Spin a yarn and call blackjack and poker, children’s board games so that all individuals above the age of 5 can access the little joy boats floating like harmless scum on the Mandovi.
3. Give a new label to all prostitutes and pimps on the beach belt and rename them family planning ventures, that add glamour and substance to our economy.
4. Convert all our fields and orchards and farms as barren zones to be gifted to the builder lobbies, and then when the local populace runs out of xit coddi, simply cackle, like Marie Antoinette: “If they don’t have rice why don’t they eat cement instead?”
5. Lastly, just for a lark, why not ask Lonely Planet and other guide books to declare all our, spectacularly dazzling, garbage sites as world heritage monuments, and a must see on any tourist’s visits here?
This BJP government has reached the end of it’s sensible limit now, and are now entering extremely dangerous territory.
By sacrificing Goa’s most “secular” emblem the coconut tree, the hubris and arrogance reminds me of the erstwhile Congress regime of 2007-2012.
When I confronted a portly ex-Congress minister before Debacle 2012, and told him that the people of Goa were gearing up to kick the pants off the regime, he threw his big (but brainless) head back and laughed “Arre dotor tumim goenkar bikari ani khuim vetele? Congressi borobor euche podtele”. The rest of course was history.
The BJP fellows in the saddle seem to be hurtling down the same suicidal cliff.
It would be wise to remember that Goans are a passionate but very predictable lot.
When they love you they’ll hug you with all the affection at their disposal.
Woe betides if you betray them however, (as the BJP now seems determined to do)…Hell hath no fury like a Goan scorned!!!
The bells toll. Keep the coconuts ready for prayer.
