ENTERING OF CHORS IN OUR PANCHAYATS.

Hardly a month is completed and some members of some Panchayats especially the Sarpanchas and other members of the ruling factions started looting and acting as feudal lords in some of the Panchayats in our areas.  They have started demanding without any shame bribe for the services rendered by the Panchayats.  As per my observation, those Panchayat Members who are involved in such bribe extortion are belonging to the lower grade of the society with third grade family background and whose parents have failed to inculcate a sense of dignified discipline  in them. They are brought up at their homes like “Chor and Bamtte”. For this reason they are committing such dirty acts.

There was a time during the Portuguese rule in Goa when our village affairs were administered by a one man village body  called Regidores who used to control the village affairs very systematically. He was selected by the higher authority on the basis of his character, educational background, discipline, morality and the knowledge of the subject he would handle. 

However, now we have Panchayats comprising around 10 members and still we cannot put the village affairs on the right track?  Why this inefficiency?  It is only because of the greed for illicit money extorted as bribe from the villagers by the elected members.  The next 5 years are going to be very bad for us. Normally it is not easy to get your work done in your Panchayat unless you pay as bribe to the Panchayat which amount then distributed to all the members, the bigger share goes to the Sarpanch.  For this reason there is so much of pressure to get elected in the Panchayat. And precisely because of this illicit money collection, Panchayat members are become rich within a very short time. I see this evidence with my own eyes in front of my own shadow. Otherwise, how they can build bungalows, restaurants, hotels and purchase expensive cars? What is their salaries they get from the Panchayats?  Below my nose there are so many of them who fall into this category. They don’t even have shame to mingle in society when people call them as “Chors”.  Many of such chors are daily Church goers and also recipients of holy communion. 

The other malady  afflicted to our Panchayats is the interference of the husbands of their elected member wives mainly on the basis of their reserved quota for females.  These husbands act not only as “de facto” spokesmen of their wives in official dealings but also as”de jure”.  How low our democracy has stooped because of the low grade category of our low grade  elected members. These husbands are wielding more powers than their elected wives.  Their only motto is to acquire power and illicit money if necessary even by selling and supplying their wives to the customers. And how this type of activities are functioning without a warning from the higher authority is itself a big question mark.  In view of what I said above, are we worthy of this democracy which is converted into a mockery by our politicians, common men and political leaders?

A.Veronica Fernandes.

EX- GOAN FOOT-BALLERS FELICITATED IN CALANGUTE.

LEGENDS OF THE BEATIFUL GAME.

In Calangute at Khobravaddo, on 4^th of this month at 7.30 PM at the popular Resto Bar Restaurant, the organizers of the ”LEGENDS OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME” felicitated 12 ex footballers of Goa who were all famous during their time, donning the uniforms of their own respective Clubs, one of them was Peter Fernandes known as Cheddo from Candolim and playing for Goa Police from 1957 approximately, he was the senior most among all those who were felicitated and playing the longest inning about 25 years as regular for Goa Police Team in the forward line and scoring thru his deadly right footer some of the finest goals for Goa Police Team. Side by side, he was also playing for his village Team of Candolim in the inter-village tournaments along with his other two brothers.

Chief Guest & local Sarpanch Anthony Menezes addressing the gathering

Cheddo with the Chief Guest

In fact, Candolim is yet to produce another of his like after he retired from playing active soccer.  His one goal that he scored almost from the centre line by dribbling past 3 opponents, thru his powerful left  footer against  the then mighty Academica of Panjim will remain as the testimony of his genius of scoring goals.  During his prime time during the Portuguese rule while playing along with Portuguese nationals, he was considered as one of the best forwards in Goa. During that time he was even getting best of offers from the local giants as well as from Bombay but he declined them all because of the government job he was given by the Goa Police as a Technician. 

Cake ceremony

Filumina receiving Flower Bouquet from Bonny

The other two prominents were Albino and Isac both from Sesa Goa, Isac was the strong defender while Albino was the excellent forward scoring beautiful goals coming from his powerful right footer. Later on approximately in late seventies he migrated to Kuwait where he kept his name high by playing soccer in the expatriate tournaments held at Ahmadi and Kuwait City Sour Grounds.  Sesa is yet to get another such a magnificent goal scorer in its rank. 

Seen Cheddo felicitated by the Chief Guest

Legends of Foot-ball felicitated

Cake cutting ceremony

The chief guest Mr. Anthony Menezes the newly elected Sarpanch of Calangute praised the organizers for organizing this event, so also the Vice President Cyriaco Dias and the President Bonny who was the major force behind this event. The hosting of this event was supported by Domnick D’Souza of Charleston Hotel, Filumena Saluzinha Fernandes the  Ex-Sarpanch of Calangute and proprietor of Resto Bar Restaurat.  Valmiki Cardoso compereed the proceeding.  

                                          Cheddo-Albino-A.Veronica Legends of soccer.


A. Veroica Fernandes.

COW VIGILANTES ARE INDIAN TERRORISTS.

“´Police detain local leaders after communal tension erupted at Manuwa village following the lynching of Alimuddin by a mob allegedly for carrying beef in his van on Thursday. 

Ramgarh police have arrested a BJP leader, Nityanand Mahto on Saturday in connection with the lynching of a Muslim trader Alimuddin by a mob in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh two days back.

The main accused Chottu Rana, who was seen beating Alimuddin with a stick repeatedly in a video, surrendered before the court, Ramgarh superintendent of police, Kaushal Kishore said.

55-year-old Alimuddin alias Asgar Ali was lynched by a frenzied mob of about 100 people for allegedly carrying beef in his car. The incident happened at the Bazartand market of the district on Thursday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he disapproved killing people in the name of protecting cows.

Thursday’s lynching was the second attack in June by cow vigilantes in Jharkhand as a 200-strong mob thrashed a 55-year-old Muslim dairy owner and set his house ablaze after a cow carcass was found near his home in Giridih district on Tuesday.

In May, a mob lynched four Muslim cattle traders at a village in Saraikelka Kharswan district after accusing them of being child traffickers.”

                    

The above news is gone viral now and it is surprising how the Cow Vigilantes inspite of Premier’s warning dared to act like this, worst than the Butchers.  Again today the President of India too showed his condemnation to this crime of Cow Vigilantes.  But in India who cares for Premier and President?  Premier is known to have committed violent acts earlier for this reason USA banned his entry there though now he is accepted there and the president though a highly dignified man yet he has no power like Premier to take severe action against these Cow Vigilantes who are the greatest terrorists, worst than Pakistani terrorists. It is these terrorists who will destabilize India FURTHER by creating disorder in India and NOT Pakistan and its terrorists. They are now trying to control human behavior and they are well protected by the current BJP governments at the Center and in the States. For this reason this dirty game of these Cow Vigilantes is going on uninterrupted and unhindered.  It is surprising that NONE OF THE CHRISTAO MLA’S from Goa is raising his or her voice.  What a servility to surrender like slaves totally to the BJP ideology even though they all know that the sentiments of their community is hurt.  Those Cristao who voted for BJP are happy now?  Wait for  little, instead of them you the voters like Judas will have to commit suicide.

Who authorized these Cow Vigilantes to take the barbaric law into their own hands to commit the barbarity of medieval age type? Are they real Indians? Even if yes I must tell them firmly that they are the strong enemies of India and Indians.  How they can say that the beef they confiscated was of Cow or of Bull or of Buffalo?  And who stopped people eating beef of others than that of Cows?  If Cow is “Mata” then what about Bull and Buffalo?  They are also prohibited and by whom and when? Yesterday the Chief of BJP at All India level, disclosed that it was Congress who initiated the prohibition of butchering Cows for consuming its meat but why now BJP cannot reverse that decision?  Why blame Congress and absolve BJP of the sin that they are also responsible? There is a saying in Konkani “PADREAK KHUIM NIB VONNACHEM” and such “PADRE” are plenty in BJP for this reason they blame Congress when they must know that they are come to power to reverse all the bad legislations of Congress.  If Congress is doing prostitution then BJP too follow Congress?  It is rubbish.

It is disgusting that India is ruled by such a communal party that is imposing Hinduism on non-Hindus also by using their barbaric power. They have no right to do this and by doing this they bring a bad name to their brand of Hinduism.  And it is not that easy though our elders from Goa died and gone but most of them they cursed this type of Indian leaders who disgraced the greatness of great India.  Some of them were very disappointed before their death that our beautiful Goa is fallen into the hands of India of communal people and leaders. We were so nicely living as brothers without any discrimination on the basis of religion but this curse of communalism entered into Goa soon after our Goa was robbed from us by the Bharat in the name of liberation which is nothing but the mockery of liberation.  If Goa was liberated it would have been in our hands just like Bangladesh which was liberated by India and handed over to the sons and daughter of the soil. But in our case it was a robbery or Invasion or Conquest.  I feel pity for my Goa.

A.Veronica Fernandes.