It is a real pity that the Chief Minister of Goa and the other “A Rajas” in his Cabinet use every opportunity to fool the Goans. The credibility of the government has now reached its nadir.
At the recent Saras Festival in Margao, the Chief Minister tried to hoodwink Goans once again saying that affected people who will lose their homes due to the National Highway project, will be compensated at prevailing market rates.
What audacity, when the Goa Government doesn’t have money to even to pay its employees salaries! Besides, who can trust a government that can never keep its promises?
Babu Azgaonkar’s statement that the National Highway is needed because the Zuari Bridge may collapse was quite amusing. Why wasn’t another Zuari bridge constructed instead of spending Rs100 crore as “consultancy fee” on an unfeasible Vasco-Dona Paula sea link?
Our PWD minister said that that there is no need to consult experts on the National Highway issue because the Goa Government is “competent enough” to build roads. The ground reality is quite the contrary, with potholed roads all over the state. So much so for competency. Highways are normally built away from densely populated areas and could sever homes and destroy neighbourhoods.
Our ministers should know this simple fact. Our Chief Minister had told us not to depend on the votes of Goans. The Congress got a blow in Bihar recently and very soon might get a bigger blow in Goa in the next Assembly elections.
Goans are always fooled and taken for a ride. Do you think if you tell them, they are going to stop doing that. Yes they would have done that if they were educated. All of them except a few are uneducated goons in the ministry. Can you tell me Ms Carmen, how can a "COBBLER" think of better ways? A cobbler who used to sit on the footpaths of Margao and repair the shoes of people like us, How can he come up with proper ideas?
ReplyDeleteBabu Azgaonkar was a cobbler near Bombay Cafe in margao, station road. He came from Azgaon in Maharashtra. At that time, Luizinho Faleiro was riding on a green coloured Vespa, was polishing shoes with Babu Azgaonkar before going to ZACL.
ReplyDeleteThings have changed, both became politicians, MLA's and Ministers and this is the state of Goa because of the illiterate politicians.
Now we have Gnanti Ministers, Ghanti Sarpanchas like Sharda at Mauvin's hamlet.
To Dalia::: So I guess from " street urchins and thieves" they have graduated to big time "State Thieves"!!
ReplyDeleteInstead of repairing shoes and polishing them ...they both are polishing people of their money and repairing their bank balances.
These guys are just scumbags.