Many of our elders
having great love for Goa and Goans have gone from this planet not only
complaining against the dirty politics but also against the corrupt
administration given to Goa by our politicians and administration following the
invasion of Goa. These worst aspects of
Goa was the result of the forcible annexation of Goa by the “fotting” Nehru’s
Bharat because of which the worst type of administration by the worst type of Bharati
administrators was imposed on Goa. Our
elders did not want outsider Portuguese domination over us but neither they
wanted the domination of Bharati outsiders over us. Bharati rule over Goa is as external as it
was of Portugal. Both the rulers over us
were outsiders. In fact our elders hated
both the external powers. Many of our
elders gone to their graves grieving when they found that under Bharat, Goans
will have to live like slaves. And what we see now? Are we masters of our Goa? During Portugese
rule the planning for Goa was done in Lisbon and now after the invasion of Goa
the same type of planning for Goa was done in New Delhi. In both the places no
Goans were involved. Are we Goans not
treated like slaves?
BJP was already given a
jolt in Karnataka though inspite of having majority in Goa in the last
election, Congress was given a jolt by BJP (Aiz makam faleam tukam. Korta tea mapan bhogta). Our own MLA’s after
getting elected are fooling us by taking law into their own hands. Once they
are elected they think they are “the monarchs of what they survey” and hence
they do what they feel the best for their own good by neglecting the good of
their voters and voters’s wishes. How to avoid this trend in future? It is very
difficult in the absence of “Recall” system but political scientists and
experts in this field must devise some methods to prevent the elected
representatives from changing his party without the consent of the voters? Can
we take an affidavit or any such legal guarantee from our representatives that
they will not change their parties once they are elected? Is there any legal method? We can also make
them wear upon their Holy Books public that they will not cross their border
once elected?
Now it is time for
Congress Party in Goa to put its own house into order by preparing the selection
of their candidates without imposition their own chamchas. In this selection,
Congress Party must forget of its High Command based in Delhi, we are the high
command in Goa and as such we should be taken into confidence while selecting
the next candidates. It is we the voters who will decide the candidates for us
and not high command based in Delhi that consisted of idiots as far as Goa is
concerned. It is like decision taking in
Lisbon. In this case where is the freedom and liberation for Goa? Is this the
way Congress has liberated Goa from the Portuguese? This is another invasion of the type Afonso
de Alburquerqe done. We don’t want this
type of liberation.
In my constituency our
representative should be selected with our consent and we will not accept
anyone imposed on us either from Delhi high command or by Goa high
command. The voters are the supreme to
decide who is the best candidate for them.
A.Vernica Fernandes.aa
