I HAVE FAILED MYSELF.
The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy said “when devil comes in you, it comes like a slave but when it goes, it goes like a master”. This was what has happened to my friend Churchill Alemao. I was the main person responsible to promote him in Kuwait which helped him in his promotion in Goa as well. When he was not much popular and was nobody in the Goa Legislative Assembly we brought him to Kuwait as a Chief Guest for the Tiatro of Rex de Bardez. I worked so hard to promote him that time that we organized in his honour so many meetings and functions. The first meeting and reception was hosted in his honour in Kuwait City at Caesars by our Kuwait Konknni Kendr. Then the next day in the morning we organized a special soccer match where we made him the Chief Guest and exposed him to the bigger crowd. Then in the same afternoon we made him the Chief Guest for Rex de Bardez Tiatro where the hall packed audience applauded him. Within the next 48 hours we organized a public meeting in his honour near the Church. This meeting was originally scheduled in the Church Hall but at the last minute when all the arrangements were done the then Maltese Bishop of Kuwait refused us to hold that meeting even though first he agreed, citing an excuse that Churchill was a terrorist. I challengd the Bishop to prove it but he had no guts to prove. He used his veto power by listening to his "chamcha" advisers who were enemies of Goa and Goan causes. Because of this last minute betrayal I had openly disgraced the Bishop calling him a traitor for inconveniencing Churchill and us too. Additionally some more private and smaller functions we organized in his honour and for his promotion. I was very much instrumental in organizing most of those functions where he received wider exposure and I was the one who introduced him to the audience saying “this is our Churchill Alemao, hero of Konkani movement who did so much for the cause of Konkani. He is the future and saviour of Goa”. Besides, I was the only person who gave him a big coverage for his visit to Kuwait in the local media.
Why I in particular and we Kuwaitkars in general gave him such a big welcome? Because we wanted somebody to fight for the cause of Goa and Goans and in him we found an appropriate man. I thought he would be the right choice and right candidate to take up our issues. At that time he was a very humble man having genuine self of genuine Churchill Alemao. When he got the taste of my pen in Kuwait, on the eve of his departure back to Goa, he pleaded with me to take leave of half day from my job and write a full review on his trip to Kuwait. Though I was very tight on my job because of my company’s strict rules and regulations yet to satisfy our future, to be leader Churchill Alemao, I obliged and sitting in his Hotel room in Kuwait City I wrote the whole review which he got published in Goa immediately after returning to Goa. The effect of his trip to Kuwait was resounding and thunderous. It helped him a lot in his promotion and we too were very happy that he got positive effect from our support.
But did he live up to our expectations? Definitely not. He came like a slave and gone back like a master. He betrayed us with a Judas Kiss by joining MGP under PDF Government and then changing parties like changing “underwear” after having bath. We supported him not to see him taking law into his own hands and to do what he wants against the wishes of his supporters. Thru his arrogance and defiance of public support he has made himself the most hated politician in Goa even though he may feel that he is liked by all in Goa. According to the latest observation, even his own voters in Navelim constituency dislike him and if fresh election is held in Goa now, I am sure he will lose miserably. By creating political circus in Goa with the help of BJP’s Parrikar and UGDP’s Babush he has received negative feelings from the people. Goans have now realized his greed for power and thru power his greed for money and abundant money in crores. I only hope he survives to enjoy these crores.
When I first came in contact with him at Luizin Faleiro’s place during the language agitation time in Goa I found in him a very sincere and dedicated man for the cause of Konkani, Goa and Goans. That time I realized it was worth to support him and accordingly I campaigned hard for his promotion in Kuwait and also from Kuwait. But gradually I realized my fault when he started showing his selfishness for his selfish glorification. A man of Churchill calibre aligning with MGP means disgrace on Goa and disgrace on us too especially on those like me who supported him and promoted him so much. We supported and promoted him when he was in imperative need of it. We were the people who laid a strong base for his promotion and this we did only to see him standing by our causes. But, no, the Churchill Alemao we promoted did not remain the same. Churchill Alemao let us down; he let us the genuine Goans and genuine Konkani lovers down by playing the game of defections. Defection is a game of selfish persons. We are not with selfish Churchill Alemao and we don’t want selfish Churchill Alemao. We promoted upright Churchill Alemao, we supported genuine Churchill Alemao and not the corrupt Churchill Alemao who is flirting today with Congress, tomorrow with UGDP, the day after tomorrow with MGP and again today with BJP. And yet he expects us to tolerate his dirty political games as if we are his Mundkars and he is our Bhattkar. He is acting as if he is having devine right to be the boss of Goa and to do what he wants. He is not Goa's boss and he cannot and people now must not allow him to take upper hand in Goa because he is selfish and very unstable. His relatives and family members must advise him before the law of nature takes its own course. The fury of nature is like that of Sunami. It can eradicate and liquidate any earthly object having arrogance, betrayal and pride.
By associating with BJP which is a communal and an anti-Christian party, Churchill Alemao made mockery of his fake secularism. By associating with Parrikar, Churchill Alemao insulted and disgraced his Christianity. If he is a true Christian believing in our Lady of Vailankani and teachings of Christ, Churchill Alemao will never associate with BJP’s Parrikar having anti-Christian, anti-Christ and anti-Vailankani Saibinn feelings. By associating with Parrikar, Churchill Alemao proved that how feeble minded Christian he is. Many people in Kuwait are spitting on my face saying “you were the person who used to sing hosannas in praise of Churchill Alemao”. Yes, I did and for doing so I regret but for singing hosannas in his praise I never received his “chiri-miri” neither I asked for it. I sang hosannas in his praise only because of his original genuine self which is already expired. His original genuine upright self is already R.I.P.
Hello my friend Churchill Alemao. You have let me down by killing your original self which was wonderful. You have let me down in front of my adversaries who are making mockery of me for promoting and supporting you earlier. Churchill Bab, you have robbed me and robbed all your supporters and promoters of the trust we had in you. Please slow down. You are going too fast. “Devachea Marank Avaz Na”, anything can happen tomorrow, know this very well. Tommorrow is uncertain. Giants have fallen, you are nothing. I am not asking bad for you but you yourself is inviting bad for you. You have hurt the feelings of your supporters enough. Think of tomorrow which is not in your hands. Don’t be arrogant and don’t go against the wishes of the people by hurting them further. 17 years back people in Kuwait used to put their children to sleep by uttering the name of Saddam Hussein who was so powerful and ruthless then and who thought he was an omnipotent but his omnipotence did not last long because he was punished by the hand of justice in last December. Dayananda Bandodkar even defied Indira Gandhi, when she came to Goa once and at that time he even refused to receive her at the Dabolim Airport. Once he told me and my friend that “Zannai mure, anvem Saddiekanichi (meaning=Indira Gandhi) porva korunk na”. That was his political might but it disappeared within a split of a second at about 7.00 pm at Panjim Gymkhana while playing Table Tennis. That was the fury of nature when you defy nature. I don’t want anything bad happening to you and even if it happens I will feel sorry because I know your genuine former self which was upright. Try to amend your ways and come to the proper path when Goans will treat you as a real saviour of Goa. Otherwise posterity will treat you as Traitor. And in the history books you will be recorded as the man who harmed the interest of Goa and Goans.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
