Panaji, Dec 31 (IANS) Ahead of the Goa assembly polls, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Saturday praised the state’s ‘enlightened’ voters asking them to vote in such a manner that there is ‘no sorrow, no poverty, and no injustice’ left in the state.
‘The new year will witness electoral exercise. Voters here are enlightened and know what is good for them and the state. I appeal them to exercise their franchise judiciously and help in usher into an era where there will be no sorrows, no poverty, and no injustice,’ Kamat said, in his New Year message.
Goa is scheduled to go to polls on March 3.
Goa’s Archbishop, Fr Filipe Neri Ferrao, who represents the nearly 26 per cent Christian population here, said that this New Year one should rise above the commercial aspects of Christmas, which the media focusses on.
‘Whatever today’s commercial concerns and the media may have made of Christmas, this Feast will always stand for an eminently spiritual reality,’ Ferrao said.
