Monday, November 10, 2014

Parrikar’s timely exit! (Soter)

By | 10 Nov, 2014, 11:09PM IST
The timely ejection of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar from State to Union by the BJP was a clever move to save its leader from public disgrace for failure to realise the 2012 fantasies of a parivartan in Goa. Though he managed to temporarily immobilise the scoundrels in Goa's politics, the rest was probably nothing more than a parivartan in terms of economic fortunes of the BJP and its supporters. No one can deny the organisational and managerial skills of Parrikar, but his intolerance to public participation in policy decisions, weakening of people's institutions, paralysing of accountability and transparency mechanisms and his constant U-turns can in no way be a model of good democratic and secular governance. The Acolytes and Goebbelian team employed to create a larger than life image of the CM will now be out of business. As a Goan, I wish Parrikar well in his new avatar as a Union minister.
Soter D'Souza, Socorro
 http://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/Letters/Parrikar%E2%80%99s-timely-exit/80778.html
 
Letter to Editor published in Herald on 10th November 2014
 

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