To vote or not to vote?
It is a big question for many who are disappointed with the democratic procedure we are following and also due to
the mess we are put in by our elected representatives. As a matter of fact, it is our duty to vote, those who refuse to vote are
sadly mistaken.. The choice should be between the lesser and greater evils
though both are evils. By refusing to
vote we will give advantage to greater evil to increase his tally and when
elected he will do all nonsense. If
money is doled, please accept but vote only for the candidates of your choice. It is a sin for money giver
and not for recipient – to quote Dr. Jack Sequeira during the Opinion Poll. The
money that candidates distribute is a looted money and genuine Christians will
commit a sin if they sell their votes for monetary gains. Such deals are
anti-Christian.
When voting for
Independent candidates, please get a firm publicly declared promise that they
will remain as independents only without aligning with any party once
elected. Men like Avertano and Ticlo
should be reprimanded for aligning with communal party BJP and should be warned
by their voters. With their support BJP
destroyed Goa and worked against the
interest of Christians. Under BJP, Christians are living in fear and our
Christian MLA’s and Ministers are watching this as silent spectators. They are like Judases and at an appropriate
time they will commit suicide, if not they then their children but punishment
must surely come as it came on Judas.
Everybody supporting anti-Christian parties will be punished
appropriately. Those Catholics supporting anti-Christian Communal Parties are
committing a crime against their own religion, they are not true Catholics among whom there are some priests as well
whose services faithful must boycott because they are not supporters of
Christianity.
By all means communal
parties should not be voted, if they get power they will liquidate minorities,
especially the Christians in Goa as evidenced from the recent past experience
we had. The trend now devised by the
communal parties is to treat minorities including the Christians as second
class citizens even by controlling their religious activities. Religious
minorities should stop associating with communal parties. They must know it is a sin for them to
support those candidates whose parties are all out to destroy the Christians and
other minorities. The leaders of minority communities must preach openly and
loudly from their Temples that to support the communal parties in the coming
election is like betraying their religions.
And Catholics in Goa will be betraying Jesus Christ by associating and supporting the communal parties.
It is not enough to
develop and build the roads and bridges but the real development lies in
building the trust of minorities in the majority communities, in Goa to live peacefully
secured life. In Goa, those Catholics who
are siding with the enemies of Christians and still performing their religious
rites and duties in the Church are shameless Catholics. They cannot serve two masters like being
Catholics on one side and Hindu Christians on the other side just as they
cannot perform Hindu Pooja by wearing the” Puddvem” on one side and receive the
Holy Communion on the other side. Those
who are boasting of developing roads are selfish because by doing so they got
huge amount of commission from the Contractors. This is not the development but
the robbery and for such robbers we must reject in the coming election.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
