With all my love and
affection, I, on my behalf as well as on
behalf of all the like minded “nizache Goenkar”, welcome the President of
Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza to Goa today for a two day State visit to
Goa. During his two day visit to Goa he
will sign an MoU on Water and Sewerage Management between Portugal and the
Public Works Department, Goa. I am sure Goa will surely gain a lot in this
joint venture where Portuguese know how is vastly superior because our so called
experts are lacking in the proper expertise in many of the fields because they
passed their exams in those subjects they are especialised with less marks as
they are given preferential treatment being the members of Backward
class/caste. These are the same
Engineers and Geologists who planned the first Mandovi Bridge which within a
few years collapsed. It was planned and approved
by some of the experts who passed their final exam with less marks because they
were given grace marks because they belonged to the Backward class/caste.
When the Portuguese government
made its decision to build this Bridge during their last years in Goa, a team
of top experts in Bridge building came to Goa from Portugal and first they discarded
the very same spot the Indian donkeys selected and where they finally built the
Bridge which ultimately collapsed within 15 years. The Portuguese Engineers told that the spot
where the Indian Engineers built later
on and the same known as Mandovi Bridge was collapsed, will not withstand the
fury of lower current and finally what
the Portuguese experts predicted and analysed correctly that only
happened. Viva Portugal for their system
and discipline.
I am sure even the
Atomic device India manufactured must be having some defects because of weak
and defective methods used by our scientists who are among the most corrupt
experts becauae many of them must be coming from Backward class/caste who got
their Engineering and professional degrees with grace marks for belonging to
the lower caste/class. They don’t have
patriotism and if they had they would not sell Atomic secrets some years back
for a Whiskey Bottle and other such gifts.
My connection and
affiliation to Portugal will never die down even though we were denied our
freedom and independence by the Portuguese government for which I totally hold
Portugal under Salazarist dictatorial regine responsible and not the visiting
Portuguese President nor the current government in Portugal. All the governments that came to power after
the end of Salazar and Zalazarist system were equally the victims of Salazarist
brutalities, most of the members of these governments were also fighting to overthrow
the Salazarists in Portugal because they were democrats and to introduce this
system they were fighting against the dictatorial regime. If the Salazarists had to fall before 1961 instead of in 1974, I am sure
without any hassle they would give not only the suppressed liberation for Goa as we have now but full fledged independence for Goa as they gave to Mocambique, Angola and other
Portuguese colonies where many of our Freedom Fighters would be holding the
top positions as Premier – President and so on.
But with the so called fake liberation they had to eat “kuslelim ghottam”.
I am also grateful to Portugal for giving us some identity as Goans, good governance system and good discipline physical and moral. They did not develop us unwanted Ghantees.
Many of the Goan freedom
fighters in the past during the visits of Portuguese government emissaries to
Goa indicated their dislike for these visits of Portuguese VIP’s but they
failed to accept the hard fact that all those visitors from Portugal have also
suffered brutalities of Salazar because they were also fighting for the
liberation of Portugaal from the clutches of Salazar. After the fall of Salazarist regime,
the first anti-Salazar personality to
visit Goa was the last Governador of Goa Vassalo e Silva. The greatest friend, lover and saviour of Goa
and Goans was he and precisely because of his love and deep affection for Goa
and Goans he refused to implement the plan Salazar gave him to destroy Goa,
burn it and turn into ashes. But he refused this brute order of Salazar and
because of this refusal he was punished severely by Salazar after he returned from invaded Goa
to Portugal. I think it is his monument Goans must have built after the invasion of Goa. Do we have marbles to do this even now?
The current President
is the product of democratic mind set of Portugal and his love and affection
for Goans as per my information is great indeed. It is time for all Goans to welcome the
Portugal 's President with open arms by saying VIVA PORTUGAL – VIVA PRESIDENT
MARCELO REBELO DE SOUZA and VIVA GOA-PORTUGAL FRIENDSHIP.
A.Veronica
Fernandes.
