One prominent politician from one prominent political party came to my place yesterday morning pleading with me first not to write articles that are piercing to the hearts of politicians because as he said they too are human beings needing lot of things for their sustenance and acquiring their needs they might have fallen into temptation to go beyond their parameters. Hence, he said I must ignore such incidents. I raised my voice saying in my normal manner in Konkani “are Fodrechea, tujea sarkim Xenttam anvem pollelim kitlim re, tum hench sangonk ailai makam”, poilem tankam vochon sang re “to behave well”. Aum tumchea sarkelleam kutreank bietam mhonn somzotai re?, Tum kednacho potto re mojesim, anvem kitlech paus khallet mure lokanchi seva korpak ani tum loz naslolea team tujeam borem magpi politicianam borobor bonvon kitleam zannak nagoileat re, chorachea hangachea?”. Then I went a bit forward telling him sternly “Khobordar anik he porim mojesim eun oslem bamttepon ulouxi zalear, tumi politician osle dolldire munis ki tumi tumche Maexim nidon tumchea paik salam martat tosle”.
As a matter of fact politics is a very good subject and it is very interesting, it is many times taken into their hands by the highly intellectual people whose image is pitiably simply tarnished as dirty politicians when it should not have been. There are very many politicians who are so upright and they give a very good image of them but because of all the dirty politicians the name of good polIticians is simply spoiled. Such dirty politicians are existing in good number in Goa and day by day their number is unfortunately increasing because more and more clean and upright politicians are abstaining from taking part in our Goan politics. I feel this is the great mistake our good politicians are doing by abstaining from taking active part in politics thus instead allowing filling their places by all the Bloody Bastard politicians. Eg. Defectors and Bribe Extortionists. Politics is become a commercial subject. See in your own locality the financial status of your ordinary Panch leaving aside your Sarpanch who is the biggest robber who makes the bigger amount of illicit money by extorting bribe from the people by issuing lisenses. I understand from my close source the Chor Sarpanch along with his other Chor Panches including the lady members of Panchayat are shamelessly demanding the bribe for giving lisense for any construction and like the professional "Cheddio" they go regularly to the Church and receive even holy Communion, on one side they adore God and on the other side they go to the devil's sides, The number of persons who came to my place were 5 of these 5, the2 were females. He told me that he is come to my place as a part of his campaign – house to house - . Then I said I am happy to see you all 5 persons of 5 different parties aligned together and for this alignment I congratulaṭe you for coming together. By getting aligned you at least prevented the split of the votes of anti-BJP for whom we and you all want to defeat at the husting after 2-3 months. However, to my surprise and ignorance I was told by that politician that they are not aligned yet with any party and they are unlikely too to align. He is the candidate of one party and his colleagues with him are his supporters. They have not joined with any other party.
The main politician then asked
me that to support his candidature as the candidate of his party that claimed his victory is surely certain. I
then asked him, ”Why he feels that I
should vote for him, what are his plus points for us to vote for him? I said you as a member of Panchayat of your
village where your power is so limited and there too you are so choosy to support and co-operate with the
needy locals. At moment you in the
Panchayat are just a mosquito and on top of it you are acting like a Hitler,
people from your own Vaddo and your neighbours are frightened of your dadagiri
when you are like a “Bastard” making their life miserable when they come to the
Panchayat for any official work and assistance which you should do because you
are elected to help the locals to get their problems solved and not to harass
them. By acting like arrogant you are
reminding us of Salarshai but sorry, let me correct here, even during
Portuguese regime this type of dadagiri was not existing as it is now. During the Portuguese regime the situation in Goa was much better than
what it is now inpite of PORTUGUESE ousted. If by being a Panchayat member only you
are acting so proud and so arrogant you are creating so many problems for us
and tomorrow if you become an MLA what
will you not do? Then I said before you could kick me it is
better I only should kick you from
entering into Goa Legislative Assembly which is not meant for a person
like you because persons like you brought up in abject poverty do act proud
thus. For this reason persons like you
who has tasted “a bieracho Ghontt “ and
also a piece of chicken and Pompret only after becoming the Panch member and
that too after looting the Panchayat which Is common now because Panchayat Raj is
become the Choranchemm Raj. For these mentioned reasons I refuse to vote
for you because Goa Legisative Assebly is not meant for Chors and Rascals like you. Then I told him to leave from my place which he refused to until I pushed him away
by using my physical force. I now
request all our voters not to entertain any candidate if he does not give an
evidence of his party‘s alignment with others.
Not a single so far a candidate
and his party is serious of having a tie up with anti BJP party and on top of
it they say they want to defeat BJP. All
balls you will defeat BJP by fighting the next electoral battle individually. On the
contrary you are helping the BJP to get victory by going
individually. For this reason nobody should entertain non-BJP parties
and their candidates until they unite with others and stop the splitting of
votes.
A.Veronca Fernandes.
