Siddaramiah, elected leader of the Karnataka Congress Legislature Party (clp) through secret ballot by the newly elected members for Kanataka Legislature in the recently concluded elections, is sworn in today as Karnataka Chief Minister.
My decade-long classmate and friend since tender years, Leo Cunha in Bangalore, had in the mean time shared with some of us his pals on Saturday, May-11: "I was very heartened to read this morning, siddaramiah was elected (by secret ballot,) as leader of the congress legislature party (clp,) and will be our new chief minister. such inner party democracy will stand the congress in good stead. they shd have a trouble-free tenure for their entire term, barring the unforeseen. Siddu is from the kuruba (shepherd) community, and maybe the least corrupt of the congress lot. I personally foresee five good years ahead for our karnataka state."
Blessed with a better and hard-hitting vocabulary, in his joyous exuberance Leo had gone on to express further his sentiments, "I am happy & relieved our pseudo-saffron dispensation of the past five years, has been sent to the dung heap, and we have the old guard back in control. amen."
Attah-boy... Leo, good for you! You have indeed voiced my own sentiments, but better !!!!
I myself couldn't help expressing my long bottled up anger and anguish over the treatment our beloved Mangalore was subjected to during this very pseudo-saffron dispensation over the past five years - attack on churches and venemous vandalism, in the guise of pseudo moral policing assaults and attacks on young girls and their companions by goons of the likes of Muthalik & Co of the Ram Sene etc.) - which in my humble way I shared with those who are with me on "facebook" and on "Google+"
"Mangalore throughout the centuries of its known history enjoyed communal harmony of exceptionally high order - which for the first time was destroyed by goons and a few rabid fundamentalist elements under the patronage of the just routed previous political dispensation and its colluding leaders.
In the light of this background, my compliments and congratulations to Mangaloreans and especially Mangalorean women folk - for giving this good and resounding drubbing to the previous State government in power, to defeat and throw out as many as 7 out of 8 of the BJP MLAs in the coastal belt and replace them with Congress.
My beloved Mangalore has righted a wrong, and I pray Mangaloreans will now be alert to never again permit the likes of Muthalik and Ram Sene etc to ever lift their evil heads again to indulge in their notorious designs for so called pseudo moral policing etc."
Maxwell Pereira
