If Narendra Sawaikar in the South and Jitendra Deshprabhu in the North turn out to be surprise winners, it will be due to the knaves of Goan politics.
If the Congress party loses the South Goa Parliamentary seat, it will be due to the Knaves-turned-Aces, Churchill Alemao and Reginald Lourenco who, instead of supporting the Congress and the Congress candidate for the South Goa Parliamentary seat, Francisco Sardinha, ridiculed the Congress and its candidate at the meeting held in the Navelim constituency to seek votes for the South Goa candidate of the Congress. Instead of expressing solidarity with the Congress and the Congress candidate for the South Goa Parliamentary seat, both Churchill Alemao and his brother Joaquim Alemao engaged in a tirade against the Congress. Joaquim Alemao threatened to quit the Congress along with brother Churchill and destabilise the Digamber Kamat ministry. Churchill Alemao accused the Congress, and specifically the permanent invitee to the meetings of the All India Congress Committee, Luizinho Faleiro, of sabotaging the candidature of his daughter, Valanka.
Pathetic Subhash
Churchill insisted that the ticket for the South Goa Parliamentary seat, which he had vacated, had been promised to Valanka by senior Congress leaders, presumably Priyaranjandas Munshi, in exchange for his support to the Digamber Kamat-led coalition government in the state. The joker who happens to hold the position of the president of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee, Subhash Shirodkar, instead of calling the bluff of the Alemao brothers, apologised to Churchill Alemao for the High Command not allotting the South Goa Parliamentary seat to Valanka and even went to the extent of claiming that Valanka, the lawyer daughter of Churchill Alemao, who considers the Yuvraj, Vishwajit Rane, her role model, had a very promising future in state politics. Ironically, it was left to another joker, Mickky Pacheco, to call the bluff of the Alemao brothers and assure the Chief Minister that he had nothing to fear from the Alemao brothers and that, even if they resigned, they would be no threat to his government.
Courtesy: Goan Observer
