New Delhi, March 24 -- At a time when even the State Election Commission has taken a very lenient view of the Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues flagging off carnival parades from the platform of various Carnival committees in the state despite the model code of conduct having come into force for the ZP polls in March; it is indeed unfortunate that our legislators have not spared even traditional festivities from being drowned in a splash of political colours - to prove a point, that is!

The political 'Carniwar' ahead of the Carnival fiesta in Margao, for instance!

However, much before the Margao Carnival parade 'floated' towards Fatorda on Sunday, it had already been ascertained that the two cities would henceforth witness a bitte...