Goa, March 12 -- There appears to have been a perfectly understandable stirring of a hornet's nest over O Heraldo's querying of the Goa Forward Party's objection to the specific candidate of the Congress, whom it prima facie appears to be a coalition with.

In its response, to O Heraldo, the party appears to have missed the wood for the trees by diverting focus to O Heraldo's "stand' on Francisco Sardinha, and its earlier critique of his functioning as a parliamentarian and the apparent shifting of its stand. Even though we are still waiting for the Goa Forward to respond to questions raised, its flagging of O Heraldo's earlier criticism of MP Sardinha and its alleged apparent contradiction is a fair point and so is the expectation of a res...