CANDOLIM RALLLY AGAINST MIGRANTS.

 

As announced, the villagers of Candolim under the dynamic leadership of Candolim youth organized a Rally followed by a Public Meeting held at the Candolim Tinto in the presence of a large number of villagers, all coming from all over the village and belonging to all segments of the society. The Rally started at 10.30 AM from Candolim Health Center and ended at the Tinto for the Meeting which was addressed among others by Mr. Edwin of NGO Human Rights Defenders, Mr. Prakash of NGO Pilerne Citizens Forum, Mr. Benedicto Pinto, Ruskin and Damaciano who in their speeches highlighted the arrogance and “dadagiri” of the Migrant Labourers in dealing with the locals. 

 

Rally in progress

 

According to the official rates every migrant has to charge Rs 250/- per day for doing the labourer’s work but these migrants are charging even Rs 800/- per day and on top of it doing dadagiri with the locals.  Some of them are demanding accompaniment of 2 labourers for one man’s job thereby incurring heavy financial burden on the locals.

 

People gathered for the Meet.

 

In their speeches, all the speakers especially Edwin and Prakash demanded from Goa government and especially from the Labour Minister for whom the organizers have already submitted their memorandum of demands, to streamline the daily wages of the migrant labourers with the instruction to follow these wages very rigidly. They have also requested the government to display the Wage Rates at the strategic locations not only in Candolim but also all over Goa.  Mr. Prakash in his hard hitting speech demanded action from the government on this issue within the next 10 days failing which this campaign will be spread all over Goa.

Edwin seen addressing the Meet

 

On 19^th December 1961 Goa was not liberated but conquered as per the Supreme Court judgment. Going a step forward, I can rightly say now that Goa is now invaded by the Non-Goan Migrants and to tackle them is not easy even though to tackle the Portuguese was easy   For this reason, every village must form a group to handle the menace of Migrants and all these village groups must federate into a Federation with common aim.

 

Prakash seen addressing the Meet

Though most of the locals attended the Rally and the Meet but none from the elected representatives; nether present nor ex.  This shows how much they love such issues of public importance.  Next elections are approaching fast and the locals must not forget the non-cooperation of all these representatives.  They may be expecting especial invitations from the organizers.  If yes, then why?  Are they Heavenly creatures?  Their regimes are only temporary and surely most of them will be thrown out in the next elections.  They should know that they are public servants and not masters.  They must stop acting like Maharajas.

While concluding, it is my sincere request to every village in Goa to form such organization as Candolim did to combat the dadagiri of migrants otherwise they will strip us to nude because the quality of migrants in Goa is very low. They are selfish and cruel.

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.




 

TIATRO "AM ADMI" BY TOMAZINHO CARDOSO.

 

Yesterday on 15.10.14, at Kala Academy Hall, Panjim, at 7.00 PM,  I watched the “AM ADMI” Tiatro written and directed by Tomazinho Cardoso of Kala Mogi, Candolim. It was well attended by the audience and  also enacted well by all the artistes where especial mentioned must be made for the roles played by Irene Cardoso and  Sheikh Amir.

 

Rendering a solo

 

 

Eugeno Cardoso singing his solo

 

Though the story was not extra ordinary yet it carried some message where poor are exploited by the politically ruling class of people, namely the Ministers by demanding Money and Sex for Jobs. Tomazinho Cardoso is the name and fame in this particular field and from his track record of past scripts many in the audience felt that Am Admi would also fall in that track, but no, Am Admi did not come to the expected level though it was good.

 

One of the scenes

 

 

Rendering Opening song by Eurgeno-Tomazinho - Anton Joao

 

In the side show songs, Eugeno Cardoso’s solo “Noxib” was very good composition, so also his duet with his wife Sandra whose mellifluent voice brought an extra flavour to this song.

Rendering one Canto

 

The musical score was very well provided and Mike system was flawless.

 

Another scene

 

Eugeno & Sandra seen singing a Duet

 

 

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim,

Goa.

REDDE - PADDE EK ZALET?

 

 

It looks “Redde – Padde” joined together in the name of betterment of Congress in Goa thru the fresh leadership of Luizin Faleiro.  Though it looks positive for Congress to gain thru this home coming of “Prodigal Sons” yet it looks next to impossible for Congress to gain with this superficial unity and as such I can rightly say just the opposite which means R.I.P. Congress Party’s victory in Goa under the leadership of Luizin Faleiro. He spoke yesterday a lot about many things including demand for Special Status and non-requirement of Mopa Airport.

When Congress in power at the Centre when his Madame Sonia was all powerful, where was Luizin sleeping to get this demand materialized?  Why he did not raise this issue forcefully with Madame and Congress Party then?  Similarly Mopa Airport.  Why he did not insist with the Central leaders of Congress then to scrap this project? Why now he is spilling Crocodile tears?  Mopa is the baby of Congress leader from Goa, Prataphsingh Rane in which case it is Congress alone responsible for the idea of Mopa. Congress is a crook party inhabited by crooks only and now that it is out of power and looking hungry to regain it, Congress under Luizin with Ranes and others are desperately seeking a way to dislodge BJP from the power.  It is not possible because Congress’ chicanery and lies are the electoral  gains of BJP.

Rane is the traitor who was yesterday barking in Panjim by showing his concern for Goans.  But as a matter of fact it was he who was responsible during his long tenure as Chief Minister of  Goa to work against the interest of Goa and Goans.  I still have pains on my shoulders from the Lathis I got from Rane’s Hawaldar for opposing Rane’s decision to grant recognition for Konkani  and Statehood,  at Azad Maidan Panjim, during the last days of language agitation in which I participated by especially coming from Kuwait.  Rane was an opponent of Konkani, Statehood and everything that was good for Goa and Goans and precisely because of this he was favouring outsiders. 

In the photo above you can see the politicians wearing Congress Scarf but are they all true Congressmen? Can you trust Sardinha to be a true Congressman when he worked against the Congress candidate in the last Parliamentary election?  Besides he was a known Congress deserter who earlier  defected from Congress and with the help of Parricar formed his government thereby giving a base to BJP to grab power in Goa.

Was Rane a true Congresman?  Never, even though he now sings Hosannas in praise of Congress because in the ouster of John Fernandes he got his “Eureka”.  Rane was a MGP baby brought up in the cradle of MGP under the late D. B. Bandodcar and his affiliations are still with MGP, for this reason he is anti-Goan.

Can these Congressmen disclose the source of their wealth and how they amassed the same in such a vast quantity?   Do all of them possess a good moral character for the voters to trust them?   It is time now for the voters to make preparations to throw out all the corrupt Congressmen of the corrupt Congress party because this Congress party wants to promote corrupt people only.  For this reason John Fernades was sacked and along with Luizin Faleiro all the corrupt persons were brought back, these corrupt persons were reprimanded earlier by the Congress party headed by John Fernades who is more upright than Luizin Faleiro who will surely send the party into the grave.  R.I.P. Congress Party in Goa.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.