The first political defection in Goa from one party to another was initiated by 5
UG MLA’s somewhere in late Sixties when
they joined Bandodcar’s MGP, one of them was Valente Sequeira my “ghanv bhav” from Calangute constituency.
Immediately after their defection, Dr. Jack Sequeira, as Opposition Leader,
called public meetings in all the constituencies of all the 5 defectors, in
Calangute it was held at foot-ball
ground.
And thus spoke Dr.
Sequeira in Konkani:
“Tumi meetingek aileat hanga, tor atam vochat Candolim Valentichea ghora ani font marun tachem dhar moddat, bitor
vochon tachea bokddechea khaddak dhorun taka bhair haddat ani tachi tuminch nit
korat kiteak tanne tumkam fottoilet visvas ghat korun tumcheam motancher. To
zaun assa ek Judas ghatki zanne Jesuk ghat kelolo.”
Earlier one more speaker very piercingly
spoke saying “only the illegitimate persons who know their mothers only but not their
fathers, commit such betrayals. And you
know who are the persons who does not know their fathers". We know what we call these illegitimate persons.
My advice to all the constituents of all the three elected
representatives of GFP to organize some sort of movements of resistance in
front of their residences to shame them and
to follow them with black flags wherever they go. To do this you need not be in big number,
even a few dedicated persons will do.
These defectors must not be given peaceful sleep because they have spoiled the peaceful
sleep of entire Goa.
I cannot imagine how the 2 “Kalche Porche Potte” as MLA’s, namely Jayees from
Saligao and Palyekar from Siolim gathered courage to defect to BJP so early when they first should
fortify their base in their constituencies! Jayees Salgaocar when I attended his public meeting
in Saligao just before the election, he so openly and so loudly declared saying
“I will never join BJP”. Now, this act
of his is worse than that of St. Peter when he denied Jesus Christ while he
earlier embraced Jesus. What type of human
beings are these three GFP MLA's? How they three of them dared to undo the mandate given to them by the thousands of voters? Don’t they come from
proper parentage? Don’t they have proper
family background and proper family character?
They acted, by joining the BJP, as coming from “Rostad family background”.
A person with good family background will
never commit an act of betrayal. By committing an act of betrayal they have
brought disgrace not only on them but also on their families, class, caste and everything related to them. Do their religion which they practice tell
them to betray others? No religion tells you to commit betrayal but
by committing the betrayal these traitors brought bad name to their otherwise
best religion.
The biggest mistake of all the three MLA’s of GFP was to join BJP when
they came into existence under GFP only to defeat the BJP. Voters elected them to unseat BJP whom these voters did not want to be in power. They may give any number of reasons to
justify their wrong act but they have no
justification because they have no right to join any other party leave aside
BJP. If they were the real sons of their
real fathers then they would not join any party but instead would occupy the
Seats in the Assembly separately under GFP. People gave them the mandate not to
join BJP and by joining BJP they are all three of them are dubbed as ‘TRAITORS”. They have enriched the pages of history book
with one more chapter called “The Greatest Betrayal” which will remain recorded in
the history books while the benefits they got from this betrayal will surely
one day come to an end but never the records of history books.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
