The last week drama enacted by Churchill Alemao against Congress Party because his daughter Valanka was disqualified from contesting election for the presidency of Goa Youth Congress totally exposed Alemaos selfishness and weakness. Valanka is a nice girl and also pretty looking with nice velvetty long hair but not as pretty as her other two married sisters who are in Kuwait. Valanka is not Benazir Bhutto who accompanied her premier father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to India when he came to sign a peace pact with Indira Ghandi at Simla immediately following the war for the liberation of Bangladesh. The way Churchill and the entire Alemao clan making noise of Valanka’s prowess as a Lawyer and as a Social worker it looks Valanka is the saviour of Goa who alone can save Goa from further disaster which is partly the making of her father. As per the events going on in Goa due to Valanka’s ouster, Churchill Alemao because of his political clout totally VALANKA-ISED Goa and Goan politics. Because of father’s greed for political supremacy poor daughter’s image is getting tarnished. At this young marriageable age she should have been above her father’s politics who is using her as a tool to further his political ambitions.
Valanka as a lawyer is not Jetmalani nor Nani Palkiwala. As a Lawyer she did not fight and won the difficult cases and yet her Law degree is projected by Churchill clan as if she is the Supreme Court Lawyer and only one of her calibre in Goa. Before getting her blossomed Churchill is fading her thereby making the poor young girl lose her confidence and subject her to public criticism. And as a social worker she did not perform something extra ordinary. And by the way, to be a social worker she has to be “above suspicion” since allegations are cast on her integrity. One person at the same time cannot be a social worker and a political worker also. A social worker is a social worker, he cannot be a political worker. For this reason Ghandiji once said "India does not need political workers for its development but India needs social worker". Churchill’s strength to shake Goan politics in his favour was shattered when the few powerful long timer and senior workers of Youth Congress made a mockery of Valanka by rejecting her candidacy. Valanka’s heavy defeat Churchill should take it as a wakeup call and stop taking Goans for granted further. Valanka’s humiliation is the strong defeat for Churchill and it is also a sign that people in Goa are ready to revolt against Churchill. Churchill’s arrogance and his “dadagiri” in Goan politics is coming to an end.
While Churchill is pushing his daughter Valanka as if she is an extra ordinary politician and saviour of Goa, his brother Joaquim Alemao is pushing his son Yuri to contest the next election. Yuri Alemao is not Yuri Gagarin the Russian Astronaut who was the first human being to go into outer space in 1960, to receive such an importance. Yuri Alemao is a Pilot which is a very lucrative profession but is politics more lucrative? It is certainly yes, not by fair means but by unfair means, that is, thru looting and robbing the people SHAMELESSLY. Are these two siblings of Alemao clan the only Goans to contest the elections in the constituencies allotted to them by the senior Alemaos? Is there nobody better in those constituencies to contest the election on Congress tickets? And will Congress such a mighty organisation bow its mighty head in front of tiny Alemaos? Time alone will answer this question.
Churchill and Joaquim Alemao both brothers by resigning from their posts showed that they are ready to do anything to get their personal ambitions fulfilled. Both these brothers for any of their decisions and actions are responsible for their constituents who voted them to power. Did they consult their voters and got their approval before submitting their resignations? Or do these both Alemao brothers think the Voters “BOSLET AMCHEA KONKEAR?” Their constituents voted them to power not to fight for their personal and family benefits. Alemaos should know this better. People voted them to work for the the cause of their constituencies and for Goa and NOT for the cause of their family members.
It is a big lesson for the voters from Navelim and Cuncollim to learn from their elected representatives who think that their voters are slaves. If they are not slaves then they will assert their rights to control the moves of their representatives. Churchill made his voters as “GHANTTA BOIL” and in fact the voters from Navelim who elected Churchill Alemao are really “Ghantta Boil” otherwise how they allowed Churchill to defect from his party to Congress after he got elected in the last election? Before the election Churchill depicted Congress as Enemy to defeat Luizinho Faleiro and in the bargain all the voters of Churchill became enemies of Congress and Luizinho. And ultimately what was the result? Churchill joined Congress for his selfish benefits and his voters remained enemies of Luiznho and Congress. In future the voters must hold the “XENNI” of Churchill in their hands because this man is unreliable and selfish. He expects every one including me to accept blindly his every act, good or bad.
I fail to understand how the voters in Navelim who should be proud of their great son and parliamentarian who fought for the cause of justice for the poor Goans in the Portuguese Parliament a century back are tolerating Churchill’s selfish politics!! Now the next election is coming. Before this election in Navelim, Cuncolim and other places the voters must get an undertaking and firm assurance from their candidates that they will not take any decision on their own without consulting them. This code of conduct should be applied and forced vigorously on Churchill because he is the main architect of political prostitution and corruption in Goa. He thinks once elected he can do anything. He got no principle. For his selfish ends he will do anything. To fulfil his political ambition at the time of the formation of PDF Government, he is on record to swear in Hindu tradition on Coconut in the Hindu Temple along with other Hindus against the Christian doctrine and now to fool the Christian voters he is displaying his photo kissing the Holy Bible. Bible kissing is not for show and not to get votes by cheating the voters. Bible is to make us upright and not to corrupt us. Bible is not only to kiss, to read and to listen but Bible is mainly to imbibe. And who can do this? Surely not the corrupt politicians who misuse the Bible to cheat the people. To misuse Bible is not only an ordinary sin but a big sacrilege warranting highest punishment from God. I have seen people misusing Bible have suffered tremendously in life, not only they but even their generations.
Bible is a great book, there is no other book greater than Bible and because it is so, it is kept even in the Moon; because it is so, its circulation and sale is the highest among all the books in this world. Bible is the Living word of God. Let these words not remain as logos in our lives or Bible will be like any other normal book. Let the living words inside the Bible change our lives and let it renew our mind according to Romans:12:2. Bible speaks about who is our God and more over it teaches us how to live according to His standard. Bible is our catalogue given by God the Father to live uncorrupt and peaceful life. Bible teaches us about servant hood and Not “Dadahood” to accept cheap honor and bribes from people. Bible teaches us to be pure in mind and heart and in action. Looting the people, extorting bribes from the people and using violent means against one’s opponent is against the teachings of Bible. Let Bible Kiss not be the Judas Kiss.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwai.
