MR CM, GOA IS NOT A TOURIST ‘PARASITE’

The major handicap that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant faces is his inability to communicate in English which for a State like Goa is a great predicament. Recently addressing a conference he is quoted as having said that Goa was a tourist ‘parasite’ instead of saying ‘paradise’. What a gaffe which put us all to shame. Pramod Sawant should have on a priority taken a crash course in English so that he could attain the much needed skills of the language in which our State is governed as well as the international medium of communication.

Pramod Sawant is better known as Property Sawant on account of the huge property empire he swiftly amassed. But had he cared to enrich himself with the much needed English skills he would have attained what matters the most.

Goa’s first Chief Minister Dayanand Bandodkar may have also not been conversant in English but in those days perhaps it did not matter as Goa was just a Union Territory and Dayanand Bandodkar was anyway a charismatic Chief Minister and a leader of the masses, alike, of whom Goa has not seen another one.

For now, Pramod Sawant would be well advised to restrict his sermonizing to Konkani and Marathi to save the State and its people from such needless embarrassment.

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