In Afghanistan there are folk tales which say that every inch of its land down below even below their houses contain gold, meaning minerals. In reality what these folk tales tell is genuinely true. An Afghani friend of mine told me once that his grand mother told him to take care of their house because "Ingrezi Lokh" meaning British colonialists will destroy it to extract gold meaning rich minerals from under their house. USA is well aware of this fact and for this reason it makes its presence felt there more firmly. To make its presence firm in Afghanistan USA is trying to fortify its stay there to prevent others from taking control of the rich minerals there. In order to hold its grip there USA is spending millions of dollars there and even losing innumerable lives of US citizens. This US does to protect its own interest.
In Goa our land is ful of minerals. Earlier these minerals were extracted from the mountains in Sircaim, Sanquelimg, Sanguem and many other places but later on and now this type of mineral extraction reached to non-mountainious places also and tomorrow it will reach to our cities and villages as well because almost every place in Goa you can get minerals. In 1958 a team of expert geologists from Germany were brought by Sesa Goa to study the presence of mineral ores in Goa and they said the existing Mines will fetch the mineral ores for another hundred years while other places in Goa will fetch lot of minerals if extraction is done there.
We have seen how illegal mining is being done in Goa by our politicians in non mountainuous places thereby destrying dwelling places and arable land of Goans. Very shortly this type of illegal mining will reach to our villages where the powerful mining lobby will even destroy our houses to extract mineral ores from below our homes also. While this is going on we will not be able to stop them because they will have strong political power at their disposal to defy our resistance. All the corrupt Goan politicians are involved in this illegal mining in Goa, their illegal activites are well noted by Shah Commission but because of political pressure from Congress High Command headed by Italian Sonia Gandhi, this report is not released. This was done to protect all the Congress corrupt politicians of Goa to allow them to contest the forthcming election unhindered.
When Portuguese were forced out of Goa in December 1961 they left hundred percent Goa intact but out of its hundred percent now what is left is only 25 percent while the remaining 75 percent is already looted by our Goan politicians. In order to save this rmaining 25 percent of Goa we will in the coming election have to defeat all the corrupt politicians otherwise with their political clout under their disposal they will commit all the 'Dadagiri" to control Goa as they want of course in a Hitlerian manner and we will have no power to stop them.
In view of what I said above, in the coming election we all should be assertive of our rights to throw out all the corrupt politicians especially the Congressmen who are involved in illegal mining in Goa. By doing illegal mining these corrupt congressmen amassing huge wealth for them and for their family members only. The Goan wealth meant for the larger number of Goan populace is devoured by a few Goan corrupt politicans.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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