Today it is the voting day in Goa and thus
it is a public holiday. The voting as per the schedule was started at 7.00 AM
in my neighborhood and at 7.30 I went to
vote in the Church School where
everything was going smoothly and peacefully.
The Police are found doing their job well so too the staff of the
government who are pulled for this special job, there was no rudeness nor roughness
either on their faces or in their dealings with the public as normally
displayed by them. This is the first time I found Police force a bit civilized otherwise
they think that they are coming from outside planet expecting super attention
from the people. These are the Policemen
who are coming from third grade family background who think they are too smart
and too superior. These idiots Panpotti
eaters acting like lions in the jungle during their employment in Police
Department but once they are retired they act like cowards afraid to mix up
with others because they are afraid that they may be assaulted by the civilians
for their sins they committed during their hey days.
Then after sometime observing the trend of voting, I was deeply hurt to
listen to the names of the voters such as Challappa, Allappa, Gonpilla, Sumitibai, etc. All these names are
of the voters from outside Goa and since they are settled in Goa which they
found as an Eldorado where they can mint money and enjoy certain status and
dignity in their life which were denied to them in their home land, they are very
happy in Goa. They already got the
Voting Cards and since this is the case, they are also the masters of Goa and
since they are also the masters of Goa by virtue of having Voting Cards, they
will also decide the fate of Goa, they will decide what is good and what is bad
for Goa. And in time to come their
majority will be terrific in Goa where they will be uncontrollable and we would
not be able to check them. What a tragedy till yesterday and the day before
yesterday when they first time came to our neighbourhood without even an
ordinary “Cheddi” and their females also without proper dresses these same
persons are deciding our future. How
tragic is it. They are having a very bad
opinion of Goans and taking this view in mind they will decide the future of
Goa and Goans.
Oh God, where are we heading now and what will be our destination? We
remained fighting among us as Hindus and Christao but the “bhaile” gained the
advantage. Hindus since 19.12.61 went on
fighting to impose their dadagiri on Christao and trying to make them as unwanted
in Goa while Christao remained opposing them
with all their might, money and skill to protect Goa, its boundary, identity,
culture, tradition, language, folklore and everything that is associated with
Goa and Goans. The hoi-polloi category Hindus from Goa preferred Ghantti Hindus
in Goa to Goan Christao. Now many of
these Hindus are feeling the ill effects of these Bhaile but they on their own will
never be able to do anything in this context but will these low grade Hindus
who from 1961 displaying their anger on Christao purely out of jealousy, do nothing to protect the identity of our pristine
Goa. Never, how these bloody traitors gather courage to protect Goa’s identity when
these same Hindus and their elders in 1966 opted to merge Goa with
Maharatra? The greatness of my great Goa
and all its attributes associated with Goa namely Language and Culture etc., were
kept on the edge of Maharastra to merge with it. This is the dirty class of
these hoi-polloi Hindus mainly from the North Goa who came from neighbouring
Maharastra and settled down in Goa closer to Maharastra boder and from where
they acquired their surnames for them.
Many of the Pednecar – Chopddenkar – Dhargalkar etc are from this past
and as such how they will indicate their
affiliation to Goa? They accuse Portuguese colonialism in Goa but many of them
were involved in minting money by smuggling foreign goods from Goa border to
Maharastra. A few of them were also
involved in Mining business namely Bandodcar, Bandecar and others. They enjoyed very good life during the Portuguese
era, they were very good chamchas of
Portuguese but otherwise they point their fingers to others.
Then I moved to some of our neighbouring villages in our Constituency
at about 10.00 AM and there too I found the atmosphere very peaceful. Hope it
will remain so till the end of the voting schedule. Everywhere Congress is seen
having pivotal role to play, most of the voters with whom I spoke they
confessed it to me that even though they
don’t like Congress yet they have voted for Congress because Congress is less
dangerous while BJP is the worst dangerous.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
