Political leadership & political parties of Daman & Diu are not in sync with mood of the people

As everyone is aware there is a move to convert Electricity Department into a corporate entity. The mood among people of Daman & Diu is against this move of corporatisation of Electricity Department.

This move of corporatisation comes at a time when the department is making profit even though it purchases its total power requirement from outside.

It was requested to Administration of Daman & Diu to publish WHITE PAPER on status of Electricity Department and proposed corporatisation. Copies were also submitted to politicians and political parties with request to make public any correspondence they might have carried out in this regard. The administration has not published any white paper even after lapse of one month and politician or political parties have not come out in support of people against this move of corporatisation either.

Other point is cancellation of liquor licenses in response of the Supreme Court order. It has affected 158 families of Daman & Diu doing business legally on and within 500 mtrs. of national highway.

Liquor business is life line of Daman & Diu. It has major portion in the economy, which pays approximately 1000 crores as revenue to the government and gives food and shelter to thousands of families.

All politicians were needed to do was to demand delisting of these roads from the national highway and transfer them to their original category as major district roads for which Daman & Diu had not asked the National Highway Authority to declare these roads as National Highways in the first place. For such a life line of Daman & Diu, political leadership is not ready to take lead and come out on road to show their solidarity with people of Daman & Diu.

As an alternative, political leadership could have requested the administration that these licences be suspended temporarily till they find suitable places and then transfer them to such places start doing businesses instead of cancellation of those licences.

There are some office bearers of political parties who call themselves activists and they file applications under the Right to Information Act at drop of a hat and write letters complaining about something or other to various authorities on almost daily basis but it is astonishing to note that they are also quiet on corporatisation of electricity department and cancellation of liquor licences.

Here also politicians or political parties abstained from carrying out any correspondences to show that they care for their voter and they stand with the people of Daman & Diu.

It seems that politicians and political parties are not interested in serving people of Daman & Diu, all they want is to fulfil their personal goals in the name of people of Daman & Diu otherwise what else stops them from fighting for general public and that is what they are elected for. Do they think that voters are fools and they will vote for them again in coming elections, whatever election that may be?