PANJIM: On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Wednesday, Uday Bhembre cautioned that the voters are to blame for electing such politicians, who are allegedly overtly or covertly supporting environmental destruction. In this edition of Street Voices, Herald TV asked people’s responses to Uday Bhembre’s statement asking people to pelt stones at the houses of defector MLAs.
What Uday Bhembre spoke in that speech, particularly that comment, was one line in a speech that was around 20 minutes long. In that speech he spoke about what is happening to Goa and how frustrated people are, looking at what is happening. He sounded a very pessimistic note, that Goa is doomed at this rate. What he was expressing is his frustration over what is happening to Goa and the Goa that he and his contemporaries fought so hard for, Avinash Tavares said.
Uday Bhembre said the right thing. All those who have defected, people should come out and throw stones at the, because this is a mockery of the vote that the citizens have cast for them. When you contest the election on one particular party ticket, it is your bounden duty to stay in the Opposition and fight. And fight even if you are not in majority. But jumping parties, for getting money or for whatever reason it is, this is a big crime, it is against the Indian Constitution, Cecille Rodrigues said.
I cannot understand, in one part of his speech Uday Bhembre says voters are guilty for electing the MLAs. In another part of his speech he says MLAs who defect are guilty of violating the Constitution. So should one guilty party throw stones at another guilty party? Does this fit into the Constitution? If common people say this, it is tolerable.