The time has come and is finally here, when one has to say, “Enough is Enough!” What we had hoped for, in fact, what the entire public had hoped for when change took place, is now clearly going down the drains!
The voters of our country are not all fools and nitwits as the governments might think. We are indeed a thinking and praying lot, patient and understanding, but not fools. Not by majority, at least.
Over the last eighteen months one can clearly see disturbing things happening in high circles which, because they were not nipped in the bud, have now assumed alarming proportions. The political dispensations has kept up a strange but ominous silence, pretending that all is well, when, in fact, the carpet of brotherliness, peace and cordiality, which we through all generations have lived by, is now pulled out from under our feet. Intolerance has reached dangerous levels, threatening to sever the very fabric India is made of.
It may be that some kind of problems did exist in earlier regimes, but that alone does not justify turning everything into a mud-slinging match. Look at the ugly reality gaping at us, with frightening eyes and claws unfurled! And act immediately to curb the menace before it sweeps us all away.
There is also the case of wanton selfishness gripping the BJP of our state. For the past two years we are seeing the way the government has abandoned the moral and noble path of honesty, zero-tolerance to corruption, and “acche din”. The U turn has never been more visible and clear! Land grab, anti-farmer land acquisitions, blatant misuse of the regional plan requisites, removal of upright law enforcers, questionable mega-projects being forced down the throats of the public, absolute resistance to implement in toto and in spirit the 73rd and 74th amendment of the Constitution in favour of local bodies, etc. etc. etc. The litany of continuing misdeeds seems endless… The time is now, when we tell the very respectful Town and Country Planning Chief to gracefully resign from office rather than be thrown out later, most disgracefully.
Arrogance and overconfidence has their drawbacks. It is when you think no end of yourself or your government that your end comes. Taking the public for granted is never the way to seek to remain in power. Nor can brute force succeed to keep you in power for long. Honorable CM Shri Laxmikant Parsekar, kindly think twice the way you are going. Your end could come sooner than expected. God always rescues the weak and the oppressed from dictatorial rulers.
It seems to me that the time has come and is indeed here when there is need for a massive Jail Bharo agitation against the present government in order to save whatever is left of our beautiful Goa. Let us do whatever we can to conserve not only the environment, the economy, or the forests, but also our history of inter-religious harmony, brotherliness and hospitality for which our state has always be well known, worldwide.
The writing is on the wall. The BJP must know and realize its hold on the people is fast dwindling. The Congress too, has yet to learn its lessons. Simply maintaining the same old unwanted leaders who brought our state to the brink of total destruction and despair, will not do. It is like filling the same old insipid wine into new bottles. Corrupt lives regrouping only to keep skeletons hidden in the cupboard for a longer time. There does not appear to be any genuine urge to sacrifice for society.
