AAP AND GOAN POLITICS.

I refer to the news appeared in the local press of Pratima’s leaving the Congress Party and her outburst against Luizinho Faleiro though not absolutely fallacious, forcing her to leave Congress and join AAP is like a juvenile anger. Her joining AAP will not have much impact because her joining AAP is not on any ideological grounds. She must tell us openly when otherwise she found Luizinho Faleiro sincere to Congress Party unless he gets his wish fulfilled? Who was responsible to hand over the government formation previllege to the BJP following the last general election? I will not be surprised even in the coming election to see his destiny going in the same way as that of Pratima Coutinho. From the first election in Goa after 19.12.61, Congress Party was rejected by the people of Goa untill Cong. U became Cong. I, thanks to the decision of Dr. Wilfred D’Souza who otherwise had his own personal ambitions to fulfill. Dr. Wilfred like Dr. Jack de Seueira had no mass base and because of this UGP under Dr. Sequeira and Congress under Dr. Wilfred never received the support of the masses because of their feudality in thoughts and in deeds before they entered into the electoral activities. They did not have any quality in their blood to be the supporters of the masses earlier in thevir lives. Pratima Coutinho’s joining AAP will bring AAP more dividends or no is to be seen but AAP in my constituency is gaining a momentum because more locals are joining AAP though their marketing strategy is very slow and not very vocal. If they market the sops their Governmevnt gives to the Delhi people, I dont think any Goan will refrain from electing AAP in Goa in the next election. Pratima is on record to have used so much negative of AAP earlier, now I think she will have to eat those words. This is the quality of our Goan politicians because by all means they want political power into their hands for this reason precisely they act as “Aya Ram – Gaya Ram. I will not be surprised to see her rejoining Congress very shortly. According to the information daily more and more migrants are descending on in Goa thereby taking over the job opportunities meant for the locals. Some politicians are keeping records of those migrants coming to Goa to provide them jobs in the Hotels, at Pilerne, Verna and many other Industrial areas. All those politicians who are waiting for getting elected in the next election and also the NGO’s who are supporting Goans, they must join together and demand from the managents of all the organisations from their Payroll how many local employees they have. They may say that Goans are not willing to come to work but don’t believe this lie, because Goans are willing to work they register their names at the Employment Exchange. We can provide them Goan employees by making our list separately. A.Veronica Fernandes.

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS ARE WAKE - UP CALL FOR GOANS.

The  time now is not to say “to be or not to be”  but to be  decisive in our resolve to remain afloat at the political surface of Goa by creating a  dent deep into the remotest places of the electorate to convince them of the folly of electing BJP back to power.  The latest results of Municipalty elections in Goa indicated that Goans are least bothered to  know who rules Goa and how but as long as they get their share of money and political power they are happy.  They don’t want to know the  BJP has totally destroyed the  fabrics of politicsl system which is now on the verge of collapse.  In this environment  no democracy can survive and this is what the majority of the people In Goa wants, both the locals as well as  migrants who I noticed  not interested in anything as long as they get their share of secured place to live and sufficient income to live like kings in Goa because in their homeland they are or most of them are treated like sub-human beings.  In fact the migrants, most of them are anti-Goans, they hate or dislike Goans, since Goa is not their fathers property “they say go to hell with Goa, we only  want to protect our interest”.  Even if Opinion Poll is held in Goa for the second time, all the migrants will  vote for the merger of Goa with any of the neighbouring  States.

The first and the main priority at this hour is to open communication with all the like minded political parties minus BJP, contesting the next general election, for the purpose of coming into electoral alliance. This type of experiment was already done successfully in India in mid seventies by Janata Party where Indira Gandhi’s  Congress was given solid beatings.  Non BJP parties if they contest the election individually on their own, they will suffer resounding defeats from BJP.  To alleniate BJP from the firm political grip they acquired in Goa is to field one candidate of all the non-BJP parties against the BJP.  Then only BJP will fall.   Otherwise forget about defeating  BJP because  BJP has too much of money to spend to win the election. The public must also pressurize the non-BJP parties to join together for electoral purpose. Or else boycott those parties that are not joining the alliance.     

              

Now the question comes is this: Who will bell the Cat by taking the lead to convene the meeting of all the like minded parties that are indicating their  dislike for the BJP?  I feel, as the oldest party,  Congress should condescend and take the lead. This as the  first step when once agreed upon, the next  steps will follow automatically.

 

  A.Veronica Fernandes.

 

EX KUWAIT GOAN SHEIKH AGNELO FERNANDES IS NO MORE.

 It is with deep grief and sorrow I got the sad news of the sudden death of our friend and colleague Agnelo Fernandes from Agacaim and who was popularly known as Sheikh Agnelo. He died early in the morning yesterday afternoon and he was interred at Agacaim Cemetry where most of he people who used to follow him everywhere in Kuwait were conspicuous by their absence. I was informed yesterday by one of my frinends at 2.30 pm yesterday saying the funeral will be at 4.30 PM. 0nIy in Kuwait we were well integrated in the acitivities we Goans used to do for the cause of Goans. He was the great Goan in terms of helping many Goans in many respects because he had very powerful influence in Kuwait even at moments more than well-known Kuwaitis had because he worked directly for the former Foreign Minister of Kuwait and a powerful Sheikh in the Sheikdom.

Seen the body of Sheikh Agnello

When Sheikh Agnelo came to Kuwait first time in the house of Sheikh and when the Sheikh came to know Agnelo is from Goa, the Sheikh sent for him, saw him from close angle and asked some questions, he appreciated Agnelo’s   sincere, truthfull and faithful nature.  Once Agnelo  was confirmed to work for the Sheikh, then there was no wait. 

People attending the Funeral Mass

Being an integral part of Goan and Konkani community, he  always involved in associating with any cause of Goans either in Kuwait or in Goa. He was one of the founders of their club where they had their soccer team that organised its annual memorial soccer tournament in the name of his late daughter Ida Ferns. Besides he did pivotal job for the cause of the formation of Kuwait Indian Foot-ball Federation (KIFF) and Kuwait Goan soccer.  He was also a founder member of IFRA (Indian Football Referees Association being its president too). For a short period he  was also a member of Kuwait Konknni Kendr.

In Kuwait among expatriates, his Club organised  soccer tournament was very popular and famous, for the final game, he used to invite topmost  residents in Kuwait from different communities and nationalities, it is thru his  efforts Goans and Goans’ acvtivities in Kuwait made known to the other communities and nationalities. The way he invites the Chief Guests no one else does because if any hurdle comes then he knows how to approach the Boss of of the Chief gest he wants to invite. Once he even invited as a Chief Guest, the head coach of Kuwait soccer team namely the Brazilian Carlos Lopes which created a big booster for Goans in Kuwait. It was a big honour for Goans to see such a mighty man from Brazilian soccer came as Chief Guest for the tournament organisied by Sheikh Agnelo Fernandes.  He helped a lot in organising our movement in Goa following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, under Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center to support the liberation of Kuwait.

The great man of Goa, greater than all the Goans in Kuwait, Sheikh  Agnelo Fernandes  was a man of pure Goan heart, a man with 100% humility and also a very simple man having no pride nor arrogance. Such a man rarely comes in our midst. God has raised him to the pedestal only because of his sincerity and humiity.  May his soul rest in peace and may God give courage to his wife and son to bear this colossal loss.

With all my gratitude and thanks for doing so much for us in Kuwait, I am but before finishing I am totally disappointed and disgusted with so many of our Kuwait Goans who inspite of receiving so many favours from him, they bastardised themselves by not attending to his funeral, neither from close by nor  from distance.  This man Sheikh Agnelo was clean in his dealing never involved in creating mischief of financial collection where he was involved, he was never found at fault while most of the disgraceful Goans in Kuwait were invokved in financial irregularities.  Regarding the funeral attendance, somew time back yet one more popular Goan Vincente D'Souza who was very dynamic and founder of so many Goan movements and Goan associations in Kuwait thereby giving so many facilities to the Goans.  But when he died sometime back in Goa, hardly a few Goans attended to his funeral.  I fail to understand why Kuwait Goan is become so "Beiman" like a "Cheddiocho"?  Is he become so bankrupt intellectually that he does not know what is the sense of gratitude?

A.Veronica Fernandes.

WELL DONE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.

 

This is in response to the latest news items in the local press upholding of the Bombay High Court judgement by the Supreme Court against the appeal by the Goa government.  This government is such a shameless Government that it blindly went ahead in filing the appeals by heeding the wrong advice given by the stupid and disgraceful advisers.  The expenses that Goa government does for anything are coming from the public pockets like mine, yours, his and   others and since this is the case the stupid  Goa government should have been very slow and very cautious sincc it is the money from the public who to earn this turns their Sweat into Blood and not the money collected by our Chor Montris thru extortion.  By filing appeals and court cases wrongly “chor” montris are not doing anything pinchy                 spending public money to fight this case in the apex court of India and as such  when the government in this matter suffered a tremendous defeat, who is responsible to fritter away the people’s money on challenging the High Court ruling? Besides the loss of money there is another loss which is greaer than the loss of money and that is the loss of self respect, the loss of  dignity and loss of prestige of the people of Goa who are not Ghanntis but real Goans having “civildad” of genuine Goans that they learnt from the most disciplined Europeans.  Goans are always considered as smart by nature but additionally if they are given sufficient coaching in any field then there is no limit.❤

Who will reimburse the kitty of government with the huge amount of money that was unnecessarily frittered away by the BJP government of Goa? Was the BJP Government of Goa advised to go for an appeal by its drunkard advisers or mentally deranged advisers?  I say “drunkards”  and “mentally deranged “ advisors because they acted   as such.  Otherwise they could give the proper advise to the Government of Goa by accepting the verdict of High Court. Secondly,  it might be in this way, that is the advisers must have given the Government proper advise but Government of Goa must have  rejected this advise and went on doing what it wanted.  In view of this,  I have lost my confidence not only on the advisers of Goa Government but more than that I have lost my confidence in the Goa Government headed by the feeble headed CM Sawant who if having any self respect would  resign from his Chair which he occupies as a gift of Parricar and not because of his efficiency.

       

While congratulating the Supreme Court of India on upholding the ruling of High Court at Goa, I feel now stronger knowing that at least our judiciary is upright and will do anything within its judicial boundaries to protect the rights of the citizens instead of acting as spokesman of the Government. I am sure there must have been tempting offers for the concerned judicial luminaries to tilt this judgment in favour of Goa government’s appeal but our great and just judiciary at this moment must have indicated to the  corrupt government machinery that such  frivolous offers  have no place with them.  Earlier once our judiciary have surprised everyone when the Alahabad High Court passed its verdict in the early seventies against the then Premier of india, Mrs.Indira Gandhi. This momentous judgememt was passed by the Chief Justice of Alahbad High Court, Justice Sinha as detailed by the renown Indian scribe Kuldip Nayar in his book THE JUDGEMENT”which was published immediately after Janata Party came to power at the Centre.  In the same book Kuldip Nayar describes how Justice Sinha was given tempting offers by Indira Ghandi thru her emissary but Justice Sinha   was not a Judge of the  type of “Ladru and Pedru” who have lowered the  prestige of our judiciary.

 

Such judgments as  indicated above give us strength to  fight for justice because Indian judiciary is not as bad as it was projected,

 

A.Veronica Fernandes,

ISL SOCCER AND ITS BENEFITS.

 Ultimately Goa has successfully organised the biggest soccer tournament on its soil by spending 4 months and this was done so successfully because of the three excellent grounds Goa has which are  of international standard.  Dayananda Bandodcar the first Chief Minister of Goa whom I hate like Lucifer who was responsible to sow the seed of destruction of Goa by openly indicating his wishes to turn Goa into  communal by siding openly and aggreesively to his own community thus indicating  his deslike for the Christian community but yet I admit his love for Goan soccer where he never applied his commmunaiism and trested every one as qual.  Discussing with the then big man of Indian soccer Mr. Ziauddin based in Bombay where he was running hias own school, Mr. Bandodcar while on the subject of soccer field and Ziauddin praising Bombay for having on its soil an excellent foot-ball ground at Cooperage which was the world class, said Bandodcar “you people will never develop the soccer in India because you are not capable to have enough of soccer fields to play soccer.  It is so many years now that you are having  one soccer gound in Bombay and on top of it you are not even thinking to increase its number.  Otherwise you go and see we have in such a small place Goa, three world class grounds and we can have any number of world class soxccer tournamnets.

 

After the gruelling 4 months of extra ordinary tournament where we witnessed the mode of modern  scientific soccer under the  indian Soccer League where a good number of foreign players holding   foreign nationality  were allowed to participate.  Though they were not ex World Cuppers yet according to their level one could make out that they were of reasonably high standard and by observing the mode of their game  our local boys especially the upcoming can learn a lot.  What these foreigners indicated on the football field while exhibiting their performance  our local boys would never get elsewhere.  See the Mourtada Fall a negro from black Africa inspite of having  short stature he could jump like an Olympian high jumper and because of this speciality he scored so many goals from the corner kicks taken by his colleagues.  Though he was hard hitter and robust tackler yet he was the most dependable defender and untiring player having abundant quantity of stamina stored in his body. Likewise so many other players holders of foreighn nationality who proved their worth and from whom we have to lesrn a lot.

 

When Diogo Armando Maradona whom we know only as Maradona when he was recruited by Napoli Club of Italy, Napoli was very much down on the Italian League ladder but with Maradona in their squad, singlehandkedly maradona changed the 0utlook of their game and acquired for Napoli the first time League championship.  Within a year of his joining the Napoli team, there was a total revolution in Italian soccer where the local boys started imitating and  playing at least in some way how Maradona played. Though it was impossible for any other player to play like Maradona but still in Italy very mny foitballers acquired his tactics and teckniques and  gave to  the Italian soccer a different outook by. Following  Maradona’s style in many respects.  It was during his peak form Maradona joined Napoli  and having no money in their kitty to pay Maradona, the Napoli Club produced artificial hair or Wigs depicting Maradona’s hair style whch were sold not only in Italy but even elsewhere too and youngsters were crazy after these Wigs.

 

Now in India we have not only millionaires but also billionaires who are madly in love with the soccer, they must be coaxed by the top ISL Clubs to sponsor at least one or two top rated players in the world for each team so that they help us to develop our soccer which is very backward compared to other nations in the world.  See  the standard of small small nations in the South America, inspite  of being so poor compared to  our nation they are gone so far ahead and we are still struggling to win a Trophy in our our own continent.  See the Oil rich Arab Countries in the Gulf, almost all the GCC States participated not only in the Olympics but also in the World Cup and we felt afraid and shy to accept the invitation without even having qualified  to  participte in one World Cup tournament in the fifties.

 

The final of this year’s edition of ISL tournament was played yesterday between Mumbai City and ATK Mohun Bagan at Fatorda Stadium which was built in record time under the strong supervision of ex Minister of Goa Monte Cruz.  The match started at 7.30 pm and the first half was well dominated by our neoighbours but due a goof in front of their goal by both their defenders Fall and Jahu, the ball went to  Williams of Mohun Bagan who released such a powerful right footer from inside the Box that the ball hit the back of the net in front of keeper of MUumbai City. Thereafter the Mumbi maintained the upper hnd of the play and managed to  equalise the score thru a self goal thru a mishead by one of their defendes.  But the one of the most wonderful goals of the tournament was the  winning goal by MumbaI Bipin Singh that gave no opportunity to Bagan keepr to stop it in the dying minutes of the game.  All said and done, the Mumbai City was the deservi9ng winner and I congratulate them and more to their Coach Sergio Labera who inspite of giving his best last season for Goa and iinspite of doing so much he was discarded by the Non-Goan  management of FC Goa.  Lobero proved finally his worth nnd those who were tying to side step him became big Zero.  Lobero has his own speciality and being a very good reader of the game like Argntinians Dr. Carlos Bilardo and Ceaser Menotti – both were world Cup winners and Brazilian Tele Santana, can cha nev the game to his advantage..  

 

One of the players who was outstanding not only in the final yesterday but throughout the tournament was Mohun Bagan’s Roy Kriishnan.  He is one of the peprfect players among all the players not only Indians but also outsiders.  His running skill is so good especially when he is sprinting that it looked he was running in the Olympics one humdred metres race completing 100 mmetres in 9.9 seconds.  If anybody with authority approaches him and inducts him in the Indian Athletics field training him for the next Olympic in Sprint by ignoring soccer for a few years, I feel he will get India a Gold Medal in sprinting.  He uses his brain very well by increasing his  pace and strides when required.  Physically also he is very fit like Ben Johnson.  Givn a proper coaoching, he can become a Gold Medal prospect for India.

 

Once again I must say the refereeing as poor and during the next eition ISL organiser must find a way to close all the loopholes inn this field.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes

GOA OUT OF ISL FINAL.

 

             ISL SOCCER FINAL MINUS  GOA.

        Ater its ignominious exit from the 1982 World Cup soccer tournament with  their most disastrous defeat from Italy coached by their foot-ballcrat team Manager Eanzo Berzot where their super star forward Paulo Rossi scored one of the most magnificent hat-tricks in the history of World soccer against the mighty Brazilian squad of which type Braizil never produced earlier even during Pele’s era though Pele was genious on the soccer field, the great Team Manager of Brazil Tele Santana after his team was ousted from that tourney by Italy, lamented saying “we had everything in our favour except luck which favoured the Italians”, till they won the final.  This was exactly what has happened two days back in the semi-final of ISL tourney for Goa where inspite of playing such a wonderful soccer some 0f their sharp shooters failed to shoot the ball into their opponent’s net. 

         When the then mighty soccer team recruited me for their team SESA GOA as a defender when I was still schooling at St. Joseph’s High School Arpora, their Coach Mr. Iqbal who was the only Coach in Goa then from Patiala qualified, while testing my efficiency on the first day, gave me the first test  of shooting the Panalty kick inspite of knowing that I am a defender but was satisfied after I attained the success.

           Yesterday it was very disastrous to see FC Goa’s stalwarts one after the other failing in their aims however, I don’t castigate those who failed in converting their spot kicks either during the first five penalties or during the sudden kill.  Even the highly successful spot kick takers in the World namely Brazilian Socrates and Zico, French Platini, Argentinian Maradona and during my  time in Goa, Socurro our left back at Vasco to cite a few relevant examples. The great Socrates who was Doctor when he played for Brazil and most expert in converting the penalty in the world, when he failed in converting  penalty for Brazil, said: It is agonising to make the  players to kick the  ball into the net from the spot kick after playing for regular 90 minutes plus  another 30 minutes extra time. It is difficult for any player to concentrate on penalty after playing 90 + 30 exhaustive minutes.  In such a situation, neither your legs do not move properly nor your mind.     

       All said and done, I must confess after watching all the previous tournaments from the beginning, this year’s edition was most wonderful and highly advanced in soccer though none was there having the experience of World Cup.  But almost all the foreign recruits indicated their calibre and the development of this game in their respective countries and clubs where they  play their soccer. First time it was shown how the game opens from  both the flanks,  how  the goalkeeping has improved, how the Brazilian mode of short passing is implemented and  so many other tecnics and tactics. The only drawback was the poor refereeing that was handled by those who  lacked  proper knowledge of laws and implementations.  Most of them suffered from inferiority complex especially when  they  blow their whistles for any infringement by the foreigners.  Such a poor state of refereeing was not seen in Europe, South America and elsewhere.  Besides, the stupidity of the Benchers by shouting  at the referees and other players was beyond my comprehension.

         I am sure henceforth Indian players will have better opportunities  to learn better ways of playing better soccer in the midst of their colleagues  from other parts of the World.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

DEFECTION TO STOP BY ALL MEANS.

 

Defection is the worst criminal act a rascal elected member can commit and it is also the most dangerous option our constitution provides for our elected representatives to play the role of Judas of course without any shame. At least Judas being an extreme class of traitor yet he had shame and precisely because of this shame he committed a suicide.  But our so called dignified elected “chor” representatives  who are defecting do not care for anything other than for their own personal glories, accumulation of enormous amount of illicit weatlh and collection of innumerable concubines of their choice.  This is the craze of many of our elected representatives which they display only after getting elected because otherwise they are cowards.  In order not to disturb the democratic system of election in our land thru defection, I suggest that every contestant for the next general election must voluntarily arrange his own Affidavit legally processed saying he will not defect to any other party and remain faithful to his own party or Symbol on which he was elcted.. This will help us to put a brake to the faulty system of  “Aya Ram and Gaya Ram”  

 

If no voluntary move is done by the contestants then voters in every constituency must put heavy pressure on their contestants to submit this Affidavit but without this the voters must not   vote them.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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