PARADOXES OF OUR TIMES

Our Political Parties bask in the sacrifices of their founding fathers, but forget to live by their footsteps and their vision. They use their history / heritage in their elections campaigns but forget to live by their sacrifices and ideologies. Our Governments spent so much from our budgets on education and eradication of illiteracy but failed to fix minimum qualifications for our representatives in Parliament, and in Assemblies to legislate and frames laws for us. Our Political Parties at times nominate Criminals and uneducated persons as their candidates to legislate and rule us based on so called winablity factor . Today we have more Degrees, but less common sense, more knowledge but less foresight. Our Governments spent crores on poverty elevation, yet their numbers surge and inspite of six decades of independence we still have millions of poor people homeless, uneducated, and without a one square meal a day Appeasement of the marginalized for election purpose is the rule of the day and the poor are exploited during elections with money power. Our Leaders spent crores on our defense outlays but allowed infiltration of cores of Bangladeshis, Nepalese, and Pakistanis from across our borders. We spent so much on maintenance of internal law and order, but cannot curtail terrorism from our soil because of political interference in Police Departments and General Administration. Our Governments spent crores on judiciary and justice; yet our cases takes minimum 10 to 15 years or more for final judgments. Our Governments claim non interference in Judiciary yet they interfere with judgments passed by even the supreme court through ordinances. Our Political Parties talk of Am Admi as the epicenter of Governance but always have their own Khas Admi to derive the benefits. Our Political Parties speak of large membership base and followers and yet find it difficult to identify good qualified, honest candidates and always nominate the own coterie for elections. We have conquered outer space, but not inner space. We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice. We have failed to curtail corruption, eradicate poverty, unemployment, injustice, and imbibe true democracy compared to developed countries and are still voting only for a note and on the basis of caste and religion. We adopted western module of Parliamentary democracy and praise ourselves as the worlds Largest democracy, but we conveniently ignored from them the concept of two Party Democracy and we have today multi Party democracy based on Religion, Caste, Language and Region which hinders uniform growth and development of all citizens. Today I therefore propose that atleast in Goa where the literacy rate is the highest in the country “ Let us all come together and ignore all Political Party affiliations and vote for only an educated, honest and a deserving Candidate irrespective of Party or No Party” Let us identify and field a Peoples Candidate if possible.” Orlando S. A. Da Silva Carmona