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By: Ninad

Ninad — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:09:04 +0000

Expectedly, the Congress got the assembly adjourned till Monday, giving them the weekend to get the dissidents back.

Yossarin, I completely agree that Mr. Parrikar needs to end this (I had wrongly thought that he had ended it 3 years back). In fact, when he took over in a similar manner about 6 years back, he ensured that all the Congress dissidents joined the BJP thus bringing them within the clutches of the 10th Schedule. But that wasn’t enough (since the 93rd amendment wasn’t in place) and the moment he saw we were in for more games, he got the assembly dissolved with the help of the NDA at the Center and even won in court when the same was challenged.

Those fresh elections got him a good mandate, but considering it’s Goa, only good enough for 3 years with Mr. Kamat pulling the rug.

This time too I am sure he is not really looking to run this government for too long (not that the UPA will allow it) but mainly to get enough time to prepare the party and a possible coalition with the MGP to get a clear mandate, which to me seems a realistic bet.

It feels really good that life has come a full circle for Digambar so quickly, but that’s happened to almost every CM in Goa

By: Nitin

Nitin — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:20:22 +0000

Yossarin

Agree. According to game theory, the best strategy for repeated games is “tit for tat, with no memory”

By: prax

prax — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:13:03 +0000

wow this is a great post
and uve posted almost all the probabilities so nicely that it is like time travel into the future of the murky world of politics!

By: Yossarin

Yossarin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:13:55 +0000

Ninad - I can see the passion in you when you write on Goa they say fate is not without a sense of irony Digamber Kamath must be ruing that. Parikkar must demonstrate statesmanship and end this vicious cycle of toppling governments now that he is even, pending of course taking over the reins.

By: Ninad Laud

Ninad Laud — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:00:22 +0000

Sriram,

I said that because I hear that the ‘Mayawati non-reciprocity doctrine’ is going to be employed by the JD(S) there

By: Sriram

Sriram — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:33:07 +0000

possible mid-term polls in Karnataka.

I like your line of thought