BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIO REBELLO.

Just three days back my friend and a colleague in every movement I initiated from Kuwait, Mario Rebello from Panjim celebrated his birthday. Though belatedly but rightly I wish him A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY and all the Heavenly blessings on him. While wishing him a very happy birthday, let me write something on one of the pillars of Goan community in Kuwait who has done lot of good work for the cause of Goans. He came to Kuwait and worked there for over 30 years where he was very successful on the job in a reputed Oil Company where he worked as a Purchasing Manager from where he voluntarily retired a few years back to settle down in Goa permanently. As one of the top Executives in one of the top oil companies he travelled many parts of the world including China. His greatest asset is his pristine Goan nature where faithfulness, sincerity and truthfulness were the attributes of his Goanness which are sadly lacking in nowadays at least in many of the Goans. After completing his studies in Mechanical Engineering and then landing in Kuwait, many persons approached him to join their social organisations since he was known in Goa before coming to Kuwait as a man of social causes but instead he did not join any. After observing carefully, he opted to join the KUWAIT KONKNNI KENDR where he performed the last task as the general secretary. He joined KKK and worked so hard to perform its activities that his contribution in KKK is worth admiring. A silent worker for the cause of Goa and Goans he helped many Goans in getting them the jobs at different places, he helped financially but silently persons suffering from financial problems, he brought honour for KKK by performing excellent work in the field of spread of Konkani. During the invasion of Kuwait he was of tremendous help for us Goans to form and promote the Goa – Kuwait Solidarity Centre Movement and his contribution in this movement was of immense help to us. After the liberation of Kuwait he also joined Goan Kuwait Goan Welfare Society where his contribution was laudable. However, his contribution for the cause of Konkani thru his long time association with KKK was of tremendous importance. Let me wish him all the best. A.Veronica Fernandes.

THE REVOLUTIONARY GOANS PARTY

Hello everybody, I was deeply impressed yesterday when three members namely Prakash K., Lawrenco and the Calangute Constituency candidate Francis Gonsalves of .the Revolutionary Goans Party came to our side entering every house in our locality to say THANK YOU to everyone for his/her unconditional love, support, blessings and prayers to the Revolutionary Goans Party in the just concluded election for the Goa Legislative Assembly. They said they were deeply touched by the support of the people and based on it the RGP contested the said election. Irrespective of the outcome of the counting on 10th of this month, they thr RGP said their revolution will be carried forward for which people will support them. In the beginning they did not carry the people’s backing for them in a big number but gradually with the strong power of the powerful oratory of their leader Manoj Parab, they changed their outlook in totality thereby creating an impression that Manoj Parab possessed the gift of Zulficar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan when he single handedly raised his Pakistan People Party. In fact Bhutto proved to be excellently powerful public speaker and by his sheer tongue of impressing the public he became the world famous public speaker. I mention his name to equate Manoj Parab because Manoj Parab is also a one man team of his party capable of lifting his party to the pedestal starting from zero level. What we need in Goa now is to change the corrupt system going on in Goa and for this change they (RGP) will do their best to bring about this change. First change we must bring in the LIBERATION OF GOA. On 19th December 1961 Goa was not liberated by the rubbish Bahrat, instead Goa on that day was INVADED by Nehru’s Congress and made us Goans as slaves in Bharat. Twice in Fifties Nehru told one in the Parliament and the other in Bombay during the public meeting organized for the Goans to make them known what will be the policy of Bharat towards Goa when once Portuguese is ousted from Goa. Said Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Premier of India “ We in our Bahrat we do not covet Goa for us, we are not interested even on one inch of Goa, our Bharat is a vast country and your tiny Goa is like a small peck on the face of Bahrat. In our neighbourhood we do not want the presence of a foreign power which we want to uproot first. Once your Goa is rid of foreign power we will not bring you by using our force or tact towards us meaning Bahrat but we will give you all the freedom either to stay separately with all your attributes or you can join Bahrat”. Ultimately what has happened? Was our promised freedom given to us? No! Why No? because Nehru, India and Indian leaders are first class liars, Nehru fooled not only for us but he fooled the entire world for which he was humiliated by most of the then World leaders mainly by the US President John F. Kennedy. The Congress culture is the culture of Chor and invaders. Some of the Northern belt states of India plus other States were acquired by Bharat with harsh means, in India overwhelming majority of Indians don’t want to live under the Bharati banner. You must be knowing how Hyderabad was forcibly annexed by Bharat. So will we be able to acquire genuine Liberation for our Goa the way India got it to Bangladesh? India liberated East pakistan from West pakistan and handed over the sovereignity of East Pakistan to Bangladesh. Why in a simular manner Goa was not given in our hands? It is fake argument by Bharat of Nehru to say Goa is a part of Bahrat. Rubbish, Goa was never a part of rubbish Bahrat. Think over it carefully. A.Veroica Fernandes.

ELECTIOIN FEVER IS SUBSIDED. - PART I.

 Finally the voting for the Election of 2022 for the Goa Legislative Assembly was over with the participation of 11.64 lakhs electorates plus 301 candidates from 12 political parties with the Independentes as well.  13 Candidates from one single Constituency i.e. Siolim is the highest number of candidates in one single constituency.

The first election for the Goa Legislative Assembly was held in 1963 when the electorates were not matured compared to the present ones. In fact the first election in Goa was held immediately after the conquest of Goa by the Nehru’s government in Delhi and it was for Village Panchayats all over Goa.  This was the first election in Goa but history tells us that Goa organiised elections much earlier for the Municipalities and to the Portuguese Parliament where Goa used to send two of Goa’s representatives,  one from the North and the other  from the South.  For Indian Ghantees elections may be some NOVIDADE but surely not for Goans. Inspite of this Goans goofed somewhere during the election process. In the first election for the Goa Les. Assembly,  the two major political parties were United Goans headed by Dr. Jack de Sequeira  and the other Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party whose symbol was Lion while that of UG Hand  and that of Congress of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was Cow. Even though the Congress Party was enjoying  enormous amount of goodwill and strong support almost from all over India but in Goa it received a strong defeat winning not a single seat in Goa.  One of the reasons according to our elders for this defeat was the anger of senior Goans against the forcible annexation of Goa by  India by using the mighty Military Force against Goa without taking major portion of Goans into confidence.  No doubt the overwhelming number of Goans were wanting the Portuguese to leave Goa peacefully  and voluntarily handing Goa into the hands of Goans but not the way it was invaded in the name of liberation  thereby Goans are made strangers in their own land where they are losing all their Goan attributes and characteristics. This negative feeling of Goans against Congress Party  of Nehru  provoked huge number of Goans to vote against Congress. 

Since the fight was between the UGP and the  MGP that was the worst hard core Hindu fanatic  party which  was the   strong anti-Christian because they were zealous of all round development and the progress made by the Christians.  But in reality Goan Christian were fit for nothing exceptional except for Beber – Cumer & Fuder, as it was taught to us by the Portuguese, hence it was wrong to say that Christians in Goa were advanced, they are not, the entire economy of Goa was into the hands of Hindus, they are more hard working; the major industry of GoA, MINING was in totality into the hands of Hindus, namely Chowgules, Salgaocars, Timble, Dempos ad others.  Where are the Fernanbdeses, D'Souzas and others gone?  The trade and commerce was into their hands only, most of the educated professionals in Goa are Hindus namely Doctors and Engineers.  Christians went to  the Gulf, Africa, Canada, USA, UK and Tarvar and minus the Gulf residents all others settled in those countries where they went.  The entire Gulfies and Tarvotti clan thru their fatty remittance they inflated the economy of Goa but like typical with  buttlers mentality  they did not build their small scale industries nor they invested their money in something productive neither they pressurized the local  Goa Government in helping them in that direction. With the strength of their moneey power they only constructed the big houses spending lakhs of rupees, purchased  Limousines which fall into dead investment. Then they purchased flats at Altinhos to create a posh image of themselves as residents of   high profile residential areas that  they would get as a big show which they wanted very much because  they lacked the sophisticated image that even denied to them the prominent places for them in the society.  This is due to the discriminatory attitude of our Goan society.

 

Now coming back to the jokes Goans made of themselves during the first eAssembly election let me cite one concrete example.  An elderly lady was told by her son this: “Mae tum bhitor voch ani thuimsor tukam te dakoitolet

Ek zago zuim tum eklich astoli thuimsor tum tujem mot gal HATAK mhonchem

Tum tuzo Xikko mar Hatacher”.  Ti babddi bhitor gheli ani aplo Xikko apleach haticher marlo and ballot paper bhitor ghatlem dhobean ani aili khoxen bhoron apnem applem vhodd kam kelem mhonn.  Pun maguir gomtoch tinem kitem kelem tem, putak ani herank sogleank ekdom loz zali.

 

During the election campaigning, both the MGP and the UGP were firing each other by coining very attractive slogans.  MGP coined this: Bhavani  ani bhoinani tumchim mortam chotraen ghalat, hatikui patienakant and Ghaikui patienakat kiteak HAT KORIT TUMKAM. 

To be concluded.

A.Veroica Fer