Finally the voting for the Election of 2022 for the Goa Legislative Assembly was over with the participation of 11.64 lakhs electorates plus 301 candidates from 12 political parties with the Independentes as well. 13 Candidates from one single Constituency i.e. Siolim is the highest number of candidates in one single constituency.
The first election for the Goa
Legislative Assembly was held in 1963 when the electorates were not matured
compared to the present ones. In fact the first election in Goa was held immediately
after the conquest of Goa by the Nehru’s government in Delhi and it was for
Village Panchayats all over Goa. This
was the first election in Goa but history tells us that Goa organiised
elections much earlier for the Municipalities and to the Portuguese Parliament
where Goa used to send two of Goa’s representatives, one from the North and the other from the South. For Indian Ghantees elections may be some
NOVIDADE but surely not for Goans. Inspite of this Goans goofed somewhere
during the election process. In the first election for the Goa Les. Assembly, the two major political parties were United
Goans headed by Dr. Jack de Sequeira and
the other Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party whose symbol was Lion while that of UG
Hand and that of Congress of Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru was Cow. Even though the Congress Party was enjoying enormous amount of goodwill and strong
support almost from all over India but in Goa it received a strong defeat
winning not a single seat in Goa. One of
the reasons according to our elders for this defeat was the anger of senior
Goans against the forcible annexation of Goa by
India by using the mighty Military Force against Goa without taking
major portion of Goans into confidence.
No doubt the overwhelming number of Goans were wanting the Portuguese to
leave Goa peacefully and voluntarily
handing Goa into the hands of Goans but not the way it was invaded in the name
of liberation thereby Goans are made strangers in their own land where they are losing all their Goan attributes and
characteristics. This negative feeling of Goans against Congress Party of Nehru
provoked huge number of Goans to vote against Congress.
Since the fight was between
the UGP and the MGP that was the worst
hard core Hindu fanatic party which was the strong anti-Christian because they were
zealous of all round development and the progress made by the Christians. But in reality Goan Christian were fit for
nothing exceptional except for Beber – Cumer & Fuder, as it was taught to us by the Portuguese, hence it was wrong to say that
Christians in Goa were advanced, they are not, the entire economy of Goa was
into the hands of Hindus, they are more hard working; the major industry of GoA,
MINING was in totality into the hands of Hindus, namely Chowgules, Salgaocars, Timble, Dempos ad others. Where are the Fernanbdeses, D'Souzas and others gone? The trade and commerce was
into their hands only, most of the educated professionals in Goa are Hindus
namely Doctors and Engineers. Christians
went to the Gulf, Africa, Canada, USA,
UK and Tarvar and minus the Gulf residents all others settled in those
countries where they went. The entire
Gulfies and Tarvotti clan thru their fatty remittance they inflated the economy
of Goa but like typical with buttlers
mentality they did not build their small
scale industries nor they invested their money in something productive neither
they pressurized the local Goa Government
in helping them in that direction. With the strength of their moneey power they
only constructed the big houses spending lakhs of rupees, purchased Limousines which fall into dead investment.
Then they purchased flats at Altinhos to create a posh image of themselves as
residents of high profile residential
areas that they would get as a big show
which they wanted very much because they
lacked the sophisticated image that even denied to them the prominent places
for them in the society. This is due to
the discriminatory attitude of our Goan society.
Now coming back to the jokes
Goans made of themselves during the first eAssembly election let me cite one
concrete example. An elderly lady was
told by her son this: “Mae tum bhitor voch ani thuimsor tukam te dakoitolet
Ek zago zuim tum eklich astoli
thuimsor tum tujem mot gal HATAK mhonchem
Tum tuzo Xikko mar
Hatacher”. Ti babddi bhitor gheli ani
aplo Xikko apleach haticher marlo and ballot paper bhitor ghatlem dhobean ani
aili khoxen bhoron apnem applem vhodd kam kelem mhonn. Pun maguir gomtoch tinem kitem kelem tem,
putak ani herank sogleank ekdom loz zali.
During the election campaigning, both the MGP and the UGP were firing each other by coining very attractive slogans. MGP coined this: Bhavani ani bhoinani tumchim mortam chotraen ghalat, hatikui patienakant and Ghaikui patienakat kiteak HAT KORIT TUMKAM.