ABROGATION OF ARTICLES HELPED KASHMIRI WOMEN.

August 5^th 2020  marks the first anniversary of the abrogation of the Articles  370 and 35A which offered certain  temporary privileges  to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.  These provisions actually hindered the development of J & K and acted as an impediment in implementing the laws enacted by the Indian Parliament.

 

Abrogation of these Articles helped Kashmiri women to enjoy equal rights as that of the men, bring transparency to the Government  and better utilisation  of Central development  fund at Panchayat level, it also removed the restrictions on transfer of land which encouraged private investment and inflow of capital  on industrial sector leading to industrialization and growth in job opportunities.

 

 Removal of these Articles ensured protection of rights of SC/ST people in the State and  grant of citizenship to the thousands of sanitisation workers who were denied citizenship earlier, despite being born and brought up and living in J & K for many decades. 

 

The people in Jammu and Kashmir that they participated in the election process there itself indicated their involvement  in the development of that State since independence from the British.  The abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A is transforming Jammu and Kashmir through growth in Investment, Development  and Employment, it will also a big boost for Tourism, Education and Health Sector.

 

I have no doubt that abrogation of these Articles will go a long way in National integration, overall well-being  and development  of Jammu, Kashmir and Laddakh too and flourishing of democracy in its full form.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

IS CONGRESS PARTY IN THE HANDS OF RIGHT PERSONS?

Is the Congress Party in the hands of right persons and will it be right on the part of its  voters to vote for the Congress Party in the next election when one feels Congress Party has no future and neither it can give future to the current and the next generations?  It hurts me very much  to express this negative view of mine when I have been supporting this grand old party that gave so much and so many great leaders to India.  Inspite of giving so much for the country and to our State Goa including the separate Statehood and much better secularism than what we are getting now under the communal party BJP, the Congress Party in the last election failed us very miserably in Goa inspite of winning greater number of Seats because all the bloody  oldies gave priority for their own greed for the topmost chair, these bloody stupid  artificial Congressmen whose allegiance to Congress Party is very  much questionable,  put the victory in the last election into the hands of BJP and withdrew from the scene for BJP to form the government, as if it was nothing, the Congressmen who were the architects of surrendering their victory to BJP were the most disgraceful persons who were not even apologetic for the crime they have committed on the Congress supporters and voters. If this episode had to take place anywhere in the world, the voters and supporters of Congress party would not only burn their houses but even burn them in front of the Porvorim Assembly Building because these stupid Congressmen have made a joke of the mandate given to Congress Party by its dedicated and faithful supporters who stood by Congress Party thru thick and thin. 

 

If Congress won more seats in the last election it was not because of any of the Congressmen nor because of any of the Oldies who are most hated by their supporters because they are not genuine Congressmen, they are the crook Congressmen, they never subscribe to the principles  and doctrine of the Congress Party and yet that they are in Congress Party it is only because of their personal benefit, they are not an asset to Congress Party, on the contrary they a big liability on the Congress Party, the supporters and voters of the Congress Party alone are asset to the Congress Party.  Can these present day Congressmen namely Ravi Naik, Prataphsingh Raoji Rane, Luizinho Faleiro, Kamat and others be an asset to Congress Party?  Ravi Naik jumped into the Congress Party because he wanted to be the CM of Goa and he got it;  Luizinho Faleiro joined the Congress Party from Goa Congress when he found it suitable to get the topmost  Chair in the Congress government;  Rane as a political baby was brought up in the Cradle of MGP under Dayananda Bandodcar but later on he joined Congress to get the topmost Chair..  This was his ambition and during his long tenure he has destroyed Goa.

  

The surrendering of the right to form the ministry by the Congressmen due to their arrogance, pride and greed for power made the Oldies and Congress Party as JOKE.  The victory for Congress Party was purely due to the strong support of the voters of the Congress Party and not because of any of its fake and selfish leaders nor because of the Star campaigners, in fact there is no star campaigner in the Congress Party, they all were mediocre campaigners and totally useless people, they are unreliable persons.  For example see, Rane, how cunning he is, he is inspite of being a Congressman still allowed his son in BJP, does it look nice morally at least? Does this suit any homogeneous family?  Father is in one party and son in the another party,des not it looks something strange though legally it is  not wrong.  All the oldies were responsible to create  the BJP Government, this was the great issue which cannot be handled and taken lightly but the Congress Party unfortunately  handled it lightly and very casually thus giving on the silver platter an opportunity for the BJP  to rule Goa. The lesson derived from this stupidity is this: Can you and me and all the supporters of Congress Party vote again for the candidates of Congress Party when we know this party is least bothered in protecting the interest of its voters? All those  Congressmen who decided to    put their claim for the Chair of CM are not true Congressmen neither they are interested in the development of Congress nor even the good of Goa and Goans but they are only interested like bloody rascals in their own selfish benefits. In the coming election they must be kicked out from Congress Party otherwise  the GRAND OLD PARTY will be kicked out by the electorate.

 

Though  Congress image was poor with their oldies being a big liability, at least one of the 7 oldies could have contested from the North for the  last Lokh Sabah Seat   but instead they pushed the newly elected and dedicated Congress President who I am sure was  aware of his defeat yet he contested to prove his love and dedication for the party.

 

 It is terrible to know Congress  is become a ready made MLA’s supplying Organisation to BJP as it did in Goa and now in Rajashantan and yet there is no regret on their part. It does not look that Congress Party is serious in keeping itself alive in Goa because they do not give an impression that they are serious. Allowing meekly the 10 MLAs to  join BJP is something one cannot understand. It is a big blow on the faces of all the voters of Congress who are still on shocking state. The supporters of Congress Party worked so hard and its High and Low Commands are surrendering their  MLA’s to BJP without much resistance for which Congress Party alone is to be blamed.  If Congress is demoralised for being out of power, it has no right to contest the election and put its voters out of track.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

 

 

 

Is the Congress Party in the hands of right persons and will it be right on the part of voters to vote for the Congress Party in the next election when one feels Congress has no future and neither it can give future to the current and the next generations?  It hurts me very much  to express this negative view of mine when I have been supporting this grand old party that gave so much and so many great leaders to India.  Inspite of giving so much for the country and to our State Goa including the separate Statehood and much better secularism than what we are getting now under the communal party BJP, Congress Party in the last election failed us very miserably in Goa inspite of winning greater number of Seats because all the bloody  oldies gave priority for their own greed for the topmost chair, these bloody stupid  artificial Congressmen whose allegiance to Congress Party is very  much questionable,  put the victory in the last election into the hands of BJP and withdrew from the scene for BJP to form the government, as if it was nothing, the Congressmen who were the architects of surrendering their victory to BJP were most disgraceful persons who were not even apologetic for the crime they have committed on the Congress supporters and voters. If this episode had to take place anywhere in the world, the voters and supporters of Congress party would not only burn their houses but even burn them in front of the Porvorim Assembly Building because these stupid Congressmen have made a joke of the mandate given to Congress Party by its dedicated and faithful supporters who stood by Congress Party thru thick and thin. 

 

If Congress won more seats in the last election it was not because of any of the Congressmen nor because of any of the Oldies who are most hated by their supporters because they are not genuine Congressmen, they are the crook Cobgressmen, they never subscribe to the principles  and doctrine of the Conngress and yet that they are in Congress Party it is only because of their personal benefit, they are not an asset to Congress Party, on the contrary they a big liability on the Congress Party, the supporters and voters of the Congress Party alone are asset to the Congress Party.  Can these present day Congressmen namely Ravi Naik, Prataphsingh Raoji Rane, Luizinho Faleiro, Kamat and others be an asset to Congress Party?  Ravi Naik jumped into the Congress Party because he wanted to be the CM of Goa and he got it, he was never a Congressman;  Luizinho Faleiro joined the Congress Party from Goa Congress when he found it suitable to get the topmost  Chair in the Congress government;  Rane as a political baby was brought up in the Cradle of MGP under Dayananda Bandodcar but later on he joined Congress to get the topmost Chair.  This was his ambition and during his long tenure he has destroyed Goa.

  

The surrendering of the right to form the ministry by the Congressmen due to the arrogance and greed for power made the Oldies and Congress Party as JOKERS.  The victory for Congress Party was purely due to the strong support of the voters of the Congress Party and not because of any of the Star campaigners, in fact there is no star campaigner in the Congress Prty, they all were mediocre campaigners and totally useless people, they are unreliable persons.  For example see, Rane, how cunnjing he is, he is inspite of being a Congressman still allowed his son in BJP, does it look nice they morally? All the oldies were responsible to create  the BJP Government, this was the great issue which cannot be handled and taken lightly but they handled it lightly and BJP got the chance to rule Goa.

 

Though  Congress image was poor with their oldies being  a liability on the party because they are fit only for fighting for their seniority rights to occupy the top Chair, at least one of the 7 oldies could have contested from the North for the  last Lokh Sabah Seat   but instead they pushed the newly elected dedicated Congress President who I am sure was  aware of his defeat yet he contested to prove his love for the party.

 

 It is terrible to know Congress  is become a ready made MLA’s supplying Organisation to BJP as it did in Goa and now in Rajashantan and yet there is no regret on their part. It does not look that Congress Party is serious in keeping itself alive in Goa because they do not give an impression that they are serious. Alloowing meekly the 10 MLAs to  join BJP is something one cannot understand. It is a big blow on the faces of all the voters of Congress who are still on shocking state. The supporters of Congress work so hard and its High and Low Commands are surrendering their  MLA’s to BJP without much resistance for which Congress Party alone is to be blamed.  If Congress is demoralised for being out of power, it has no right to contest the election and put its voters out of track.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

 

 

 

THE STRONG INFLUENCE OF PORTUGAL & CHRISTIANITY ON GOA & GOANS. PART - III.

The second influx that came to Goa very hurriedly along with the Maharastrians too was the influx of most of the third class Malyalees most of whom were rejected back at home in their own Malyali society. Some of them were so anti-Goan that they even voted cheatingly in favour of Merger of Goa  because they did not like Goans especially the Goan Catholics because they were more patriotic towards Goa and everything  Goan, which they did not like, they wanted domination of Goa but Catholics were refusing them this while others were silently surrendering them because being the supporters of MGP they had no love for Goa & Goans and precisely because they had no love for Goa and Goans they were silenty at least supporting the non-Goan outsiders. These early Malyalis had dislike for the Goans and according to them Goans  were good for nothing, While expressing these feelings  many of them were  displaying  only their Degree Certificates but practically they were totally unfit to  be worthy of those degrees.   Yet they took good advantage of their third grade degrees in Goa by getting employment in the newly established English Schools in Goa mainly by the Goa Church and in the bargain to prove their cheap and third class background many of them they wooed our young girls towards them, befriended with these young Goan girls and gradually became the “Honrad Ghor Zanvui” in Goa thereby enjoying all the previlleges mainly the financial, inherited to them thru their wives. Because of their higher English Education they got good advantage in Goa (In Goa then there was no higher English education, the highest point then was only up to the Matricultion or SSC and to answer this Matriculation final examination the students had to go to Bombay or other nighouring places).

As teachers they were unable to communicate with our students clearly due to lack of clarity because of their faulty English accent that found our students as confusing and difficult to absorb and secondly as human beings many of them  were rejected  and disrespected in their homeland because of the variety of reasons namely they were rough and confusion makers, number one crooks, they loved creating disorder in the smooth functioning of the society, They lacked peace in their hearts. The first person to be hanged in Goa after 19.12.61 was a Malyalee Kumar by name for committing a double murder in Caranzalem, the mother and her young child baby girl were murdered, cut their bodies into pieces and packed them in the box. This case being the first after the invasion of Goa created sensation all over Goa and there was so much of peoples gathering in the court in Panjim that some of them even came to assaultl the advocate Marathe by name of Kumar but nobody knew which side Marathe entered the court room and when and how he exited from the Court but heavy security “bandabost” was done especially when people were asking for the blood of Marathe for supporting the criminal, by saying “Marathe khuim gelo re to, taka bhair haddat re hanga, amkam toch zai, to Ghantti” (Marathe was originally from the area in Maharastra and  was well versed in Portuguese). Some of the Malyali teachers were instigating their students to revolt against their Principals and other Goan teachers.  They had no peace. They had great ambition to have a full control of Goan affairs.  They wanted to be somebody in Goa as the administrators and protectors of Goa, their attitude towards Goans was very low as they said Goans are useless people.

The first English High School of Goa, St. Joseph’s High School, Arpora was the best disciplined School of Goa under the most strict disciplinarian principal Fr. Philip Neri Mendonca.  His power was such that the noise of one thousand students would abruptly come to a halt by only listening to a blow of his Hitlerian type of the Whistle, the students were shivering in front of him especially if they were guilty of any wrong doing. Inspite of this somewhere in 1963  the students of this School organized a Strike on one Thursday by boycotting their classes. This was the first ever Strike of students in Goa.  Their demand was “Holiday” on every Thursday because the school was conducting its business on whole day basis, from  7.45 AM to 4.30 PM with an hour for Lunch break.  When this news went here and there, nobody believed this has actually happened to Arpora School under that gigantic minded genius Principal Fr. Mendonca who was not only a Roman Catholic Priest but a respectable Monsignor. The School had most of the teachers as good yet a few of them were very funny and most of them with long term experience namely Maths Teacher Mr. Rafael from Saligao who used to come daily on his Cycle, for French Mr. Naik from Siolim he used to come in a Caminhao (public transport) and if he missed this transport he would walk up to Siolim, these were their hardships, Gen. Science & Maths Mr. Pednecar from Nagoa who used to either walk to school and home or Cycle, for General Science Mr. Albuquerqe from Arpora next to the School Compound, For Hindi Mr. Shirodcar from Anjuna he too was coming in a Cycle. Besides them there were many more including the lady teachers, they were all the most sincere teachers, first sincere to the School, then to their profession and then finally to their students.

With the exception of few, most of the students of this school were coming walking with a food tiffin in their hands for their Lunch and walking from Candolim,  Nerul, Calangue, Parra, Saligao, Siolim etc. while there were many boarders too mainly from Salcette and Ilhas.  The students of this school were good not only in their studies but also in other extra curricular activities mainly the Sports that includes Swimming Race, Cross Country both in Running and Cycle. Indoor games such Table tennis, Carrom and Badminton while Out door games like Crcket, Hockey, volley ball and Foot-ball.  Its annual Sports meet on School ground was like Olympics with  track and field items with the most attractive item "Drill" as it was called and where different Tableaux were shown depicting the world events.  This was the special item of Fr. Mendonca.  All the sports items were spread from June to December and those who stood first in any item at Arpora School, most of the time he without any difficulty would come first at All Goa Inter School Athletics Meet. Though it was the school for boys only yet it was full with students from Christian and Hindu students who were very secular because it was the principle of this school to practice broad minded secularism.  The Hindu students of this school were very broad minded  hailing from all over Goa and many of the students were staying as the boarders. There were three Dormitories for Boarders, namely one for small boys, the other for middle class and the third for big boys  These students had strong influence on them of Portugal and Christianity for this reason even in the employment those who studied at Arpora were preferred because their discipline, character and sincerity were very good influenced by the Portuguese decent rule and Christian doctrine. Many of those schools in Goa were owned and run by the Priests and Nuns and since this was the case they were imparted with very good discipline as it was existing all over Goa as per the he local Portuguese laws and discipline and also as based on Christian doctrine with the highest degree of morality, self sacrifice attitude, with cool  temperament,  non-aggressive behaviour, spread of peaceful atmosphere not only among them in thier schools but everywhere in Goa and even elsewhere. Because of these attributes Goans brought up as peaceful citizens they always remained as peaceful turning Goa as a peaceful place compared to other places elsewhere in India where you find aggressive and communal riots creating citizens who thru these riots create a very big devide among communities while in Goa its citizens due to their charismatic characteristics they embrace others.  Here lies the greatness of Goans for which one must admire Portuguese rule and Christian discipline.

  

A.Veronica Fernandes