As expected the swearing in ceremony of Pramod Sawant ended up being a BJP show, indeed a very cheap one. The very shouting of slogans inside the venue marred and breached the solemnity of the function presided by Goa Governor as custodian of constitutional propriety in the State. In fact BJP’s event management team, and […]
Month: March 2022
A NEW GOVERNMENT – BUT THE CORROSION CONTINUES
After clinging on illegally as Chief Minister for the last many days, Pramod Sawant is now officially back in the saddle. It was very insensitive on the part of a government which for long has been on a monthly borrowing spree to make ends meet to have needlessly squandered all those lakhs and that too […]
OUR MLAs WILL HAVE TO BE FINE LEGISLATORS
For most of the 40, getting elected at the Assembly elections held on Valentine’s Day was a hell of a job. But the bigger task at hand now will be for these MLA’s to successfully perform as Legislators to the satisfaction of their constituents. In a democracy the role of the Opposition is even more […]
OATH OF OFFICE — CONSTITUTIONAL SOLEMNITY TURNED INTO COSTLY CARNIVAL
Goa will today witness the much delayed swearing-in ceremony of the Chief Minister and his cabinet being held in contentious circumstances. After the Chief Minister having been selected by the Delhi leaders, the list of cabinet Ministers has also been finalized by the BJP High Command and Goa is set to be now run by […]
ELECTIONS MUST BE FAIR, TRANSPARENT AND MEANINGFUL
To ensure free as well as fair elections and as a step towards ensuring a level playing field for all candidates, it is imperative that the Legislative Assembly be dissolved and a spell of President’s rule be imposed, while the elections are being held. This would help towards curbing misuse of official machinery to influence […]
PRAMOD SAWANT MUST NOT FALTER AGAIN
The Goa State Industries Association has very rightly appealed to Pramod Sawant to select his pack of Ministers strictly on Merit. Ministers with competence and integrity would go a long way towards ensuring the much needed Transparency in Governance and Zero Tolerance to Corruption which the Pramod Sawant has already vowed by. After all that […]
TAMPERING WITH CONSTITUTION AT GOVERNOR’S LEVEL IS SHOCKING
The queer situation of Goa not having a constitutionally sanctioned Government for quite many days is entirely due to Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai’s questionable role amounting to tampering with the Constitution, wittingly or unwittingly. Goa Governor Pillai by an order issued on March 21st notified acting Chief Minister Pramod Sawant as Goa’s Chief Minister. Furthermore, […]
ROUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR CM PRAMOD SAWANT
In what is unprecedented, for the very first time Goa is seeing an unacceptable delay in Government formation. On 10th March after having won 20 seats, the BJP with the support of the MGP and three independents had that very night a clear majority of 25 in the House of 40. But the Government is […]
MR CM, PLEASE NO ’FALTU’ PROMISES ANY MORE
The singular “achievement” of successive BJP governments in Goa has been the perfection of the Art of Political Conmanship — from brand of U-Turns to Sawant’s edition of Bluffs. Goans have suffered it all for far too long. After all that we have witnessed over the last three years with him as CM, it is […]
SWEARING IN CEREMONY OF CABINET CANNOT BE A POLITICAL CARNIVAL
The swearing in ceremony of the Chief Minister and the cabinet is a State function traditionally held at the Raj Bhavan. And now with a new Durbar hall at the Goa Raj Bhavan that can accommodate a thousand persons there could be no reason to hold it elsewhere. It is a solemn ceremony which cannot […]