The BJP MLA Wishnu Wagh
on 31.07.15 acted like a real “Vag” not in the jungle but in the Goa
Legislative Assembly during the debate on MOI grant as if Assembly is his
father’s property and language issue is his mother’s monopoly. Rabindranath
Tagore a strong proponent of mother tongue said: “One can reach into the sea of
eternal understanding only thru one’s own mother tongue”. I also support the primary education thru
one’s own mother tongue but who am I to impose my will on Goan children? It is the responsibility of their parents and
guardians to choose what is good for them and not to the government, not to me
and definitely not to Wishnu Wagh and Dawlikar. Their voices became audible
only because they are in the Assembly but tomorrow when they are booted out in
the coming election they will be Zeroes. The grant government gives is not from its own
pocket but from the pockets of the tax payers and as such government must abide
by the decision of the tax payer parents.
By giving grant government is not doing any favour, it is only doing its
duty and that is the job of the government.
The rallies organized
on Friday, 31.07.15 by the interested persons is an
outcome of the frustration of the parents over the delay government does in
getting this proposal into an Act. This
is because people in Goa has lost their faith in government assurances because this
government is known as the government of
U turns and government of the Liars.
Blaming the Priests and
Diocesan Society by the government and persons like Parsenkar, Wagh and Dawlikar for
pushing the students to take part in the rallies against government on MOI issue
without concrete evidence is a Baby Talk and based on this, to issue juvenile
type of threats is nonsense. It is with the support of the same Priests and Diocese that this
BJP government came to power and they alone are in a position to defeat BJP and
Wishnu Wagh in the coming election. The electorate from St. Andre constituency will surely teach Wagh a very good lesson in the next election.
What is wrong if students took part in the rallies
to fight for justice? It is their
responsibility also to raise their voice against injustice. It is only thru their agitations that justice
was meted out to the society. We must know that on the advice of Ghandiji the
students boycotted classes and took active part in the agitation against the
government. Even Jayprakash Narain gave
clarion call to the students community
in the same manner to fight against the injustice of Indira Ghandi. The great Mathematician cum Philosopher
Prof. Betrand Russel openly asked his
students to leave the class and go and fight against the onslaught of Hitler in the
last World War.
Asking the students and
also the teaching staff to leave the
classes in order to participate in the agitation against the “dadagiri” of the
ruling government is not wrong. But cheating
the people by telling lies and by taking U turns is wrong. For this reason, FORCE movement should be
supported by every right thinking Goan and in the next election the paper
Tigers and Lions must be thought a very good lesson for helping to impose
dadagiri on the students community.
The Waghs and Dawlikars are giving a communal turn to the FORCE movement but they must know one thing very strongly that more people seen at Azad Maidan to support Hunger Striker Lopes were not Christians but Hindus, including Muslims.
In the matter of spreading education in Goa the work of the Church cannot be belittled. It is in these Church Schools that Waghs and Dawlikars acquired their education like any Lopes, Fernandes and Desouza. To construct these Diocesan Schools only the persons like Fernandes and Desouzas gave their donations while all the Barking Dogs against the Priests and Diocesan Schools enjoyed the benefits of the Diocesan Schools without their contribution. Shameless are these Pimps.
A.VeronicaFernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394349.
