Hi, Either the writer of this articalis badly informed or he is a congress basher.I am a residentof Goa and I know how democratic the parrikar government was.Anyway thats not a issue.Mr.Shenoy says,-i quote, "This brings up a curious fact. Can anyone recall another such instance of a governor overstepping his bounds between 1998 and 2005? The last time it happened was when Romesh Bhandari put Jagdambika Pal in office after hastily dismissing Kalyan Singh, but the prime minister of the time was the hapless I K Gujral. It has taken less than a year after the Congress came to power in Delhi for the old bad habits to be restored" end qoute. Mr.Shenoy,what about 1999 when Mr.Ranes government eas dissmissed by the Governor without any kind of trial of strength? Guess who was the union home minister? None other than Mr. Advani.What about the happenings in the north east? All above board Mr.Shenoy??
With Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister I expected a clear departure from past practice of Congress of buying MLS to get into power. It was Rajiv as PM who introduced anti defection bill in present format. It is another thing that unwittingly he gave power to speaker of assembly/Parliment. So called presiding officers have been blantantly partial and used these power to keep the party of their choice in power. Congress it appears is still controlled by power brokers who want their men everywhere so that they can dish out favours and in turn get favours.
In my openion Rajiv Gandhi was a Prime Minister with foresight. He initiated reforms and telecom revolution results of which every one can see. But he became a victim of some manipulative persons in party who misguided him, indulged in corrupt practices and let him take the blame all the time remaining in background. These people of no substance were responsible for congress being out of power for 10 years. I do hope that Sonia and Rahul ( may be Manmohan Singh if he has some voice in party or government) take notice of this and dismiss both governor and Rane and call for fresh election.
