Goa, April 20 -- Delegations have met Prime Ministers making impassioned appeals and still special status hasn't become a reality. Promises have been made at election time and special status has eluded Goa. We can't be censured if we begin to believe that special status is merely a promise being bandied about to keep up the hopes of the people. When you look at it dispassionately, just what steps have been taken to make it a reality?
Five years ago the then BJP Prime Ministerial candidate had promised he would get it done for Goa if the party were to come to power at the Centre. BJP got a simple majority, Goa elected both BJP MPs at that time, there was a BJP-led government in Goa, and five years later, there is no mention of special statu...