GRAND PROMISES BEFORE THE PRE- POLL

To,

The Editor,

Herald

Panjim

 

This letter may be published at the earliest i the Letter to the Editor column or People's Edit page.

Thanks

 

Stephen Dias

D.Paula

Date: 20.12.2011

Ref: Your Herald today's News (20.12.2011), on this topic.

 

                       GRAND PROMISES BEFORE THE PRE-POLL

 

The Congress Government is somehow making some efforts to bully the voters to vote for the Congress by making arrangements and giving promises which is just two months before the pre- poll.

The most interesting and exciting promise is Rs.5000/- bonus for Class C, D government employees and pensioners for which the Govt is ready to spend Rs.17 crores from the exchequer funds even though the funds are not readily available.

The important point in this scheme is precisely focused for the State government employees and not the central government and other employees working in this state. There exists Defense, MPT, Customs, NIO, P&T and University  employees etc are also the voters in Goa, which needs to be categorized or included in this scheme, otherwise there is going to have some repurcations and bad feeling amongst them which may create a backfire against this scheme. The state government always take the help for allocations/participation of local central government employees for the polls functioning as well as other infrastructure.

Another point of great interest is that the Govt. is adamant not to scrap the RP-21 and deciding to rectify it which is again another trick played into the villager's demands. I do not understand also, why Churchill gets involved by announcing and interfering into this RP demand and saying that the "RP -21 will be rectified", when it is not his baby. Probably the CM is making him a scapegoat and using him, wherever is required, as CM is fully aware that this RP will bounce back on him which is certainly not acceptable to Goans at large.

Churchill should be wise enough not to make such announcement in future and needs to understand what is good or bad to him and not to be under the whims and fancies of the government promises otherwise he will loose his position and votes at his constituency.

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