Dr. Jack de Sequeira's Statue
Goa Pradesh Congress
Committee President Luizinho Faleiro offered floral tributes to the father of
the Opinion Poll, the late Dr. Jack de Sequeira at Calangute and at Ponda on
Friday, 16th of this month.
It was Dr. Sequeira who in his face to face dialogue with Nehru
impressed upon Nehru to grant Goa the previllege of Opinion Poll to decide the
fate of Goa’s merger with Maharastra. Hence, Dr. Sequeira was rightly called
the father of Goa’s Opinion Poll. According to one source during that time, Nehru
agreed for holding the Opinion Poll with
the expectation that mergerists will win as he wanted and thus close the case of Goa's separate identity. Indira
Gandhi as premier of India after the demise of Nehru and Shastri just
implemented the decision taken by her father.
It is true fact as
expressed by Faleiro in his speech that
BJP has the hidden agenda which it will implement and that agenda is to
diminish the influence of minorities in India.
With its brute majority BJP will not develop India but it will only
develop its communal arrogance thereby minorities will be treated as second
class citizens of India. Because of this
hidden agenda of BJP the life security of minorities in India will be put into
peril. Under BJP with its partner RSS
the survival of minorities is at risk.
In view of this minorities should be very careful when giving their
allegiance to BJP.
Can Congress Party give
an alternative solution? Never with the
rogue Congressmen around, never with the old guards as candidates to contest
the next election, never ever with the defeated candidates re-contesting the
next election. The major damage to Congress party was done by the defeated candidates
and as such they should be discarded unless Faleiro wants total R.I.P. of Congress in
Goa. Most of the defeated candidates
lost in the last election because of their arrogance, pride, revengeful nature
and also because they were looting the public.
In my Calangute
constituency if Luizin Faleiro and his Congress Low and High Commands want a
victory then the Congress candidate should be upright, should not have past
record of arrogance, revenge, pride,
bribe taking, womanizing and must not be known to behave like a Maharaja. We
want a candidate who identifies himself with the common men and not the one who
move in foreign brand car like a Maharaja.
The Calangute village
has unique distinction of honouring Dr. Jack de Sequeira by erecting his full
size monument without any support from the government. In fact this job should have done long time
back by the Congress only when Faleiro was ruling in Goa, by erecting this monument in Panjim
itself. But he and his Congress party
failed Dr. Sequeira and now to fool the people releasing Crocodile tears. Where Congress
party failed Calangute village succeeded and the major credit for this success should
go to Joseph Sequeira – current Panch member and ex Sarpanch of Calangute.
Pedro Coutinho
It would have been very
appropriate if the late Pedro Coutinho had been posthumously honoured during
the function at Calangute for being a very powerful activist during those
critical days. Pedro Coutinho played a
very important role during those days in Calangute village and constituency as
well to motivate the people to vote for TWO LEAVES. I remember once he organized a big Cycle rally
from Calangute to Mapusa and to participate in this rally I even remained
absent from my school. Not only this, on
that particular day Bandodcar brought real Lions and sword wielding goondas at
Mapusa to silence our voice. But if it
was not for our Pedro Coutinho’s daring support for our rally there would have
been blood bath at Mapusa, the victims would be we and our people only.
In Calangute, there is
yet a Pedro Coutinho to be born again. He was the pride and support of the
village. While appreciating Dr. Jack de Sequeira, I also commend the late
Pedro Coutinho for playing a major role in Calangute in support of Goans to gain victory for
Goa in the historic Opinion Poll.
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.
