Luizinho Faleiro
ultimately left Congress Party that gave him strong footing to live like a
lord in Goa because Congress Party
became the party of Lords after the British left from India by handing over the
power into the hands of Congressmen indircctly telling them to act as Monarchs
on their behalf. Luizinho Faleiro was
one such Monarch, when he newly joined Congress Party and maneuvering his path
to reach to the pedestal which he
ultimately got but if he was in any other party he would never get an opportunity
to reach to the pedestal. Congress
Party also makes you somebody but just
he did not get what he wanted, should he
resign from the Party? If he was genuine
lover of Goa and Goan cause he would have submitted his resignation immeditetely
when the Congress High Command emissary Digvijay prevented him from submitting his list to the concerned authority to form
Congress Ministry following the last election results when Congress Party had majority in its hands
besides propped up by 4 MLA’s from elsewhere.
If he had to throw his resignation on the ugly face of ugly Digvijay
then the situation would have been different.
Four years back when the topic of distribution
of the election contesting tickets came, Congress Party organized a meeting at
Hotel Mandovi with a Luncheon. Suddenly
at about 1.00 pm I got a phone call from Luizinho Faleiro inviting me immdiately
for the Luncheon that I politely turned down but he insisted. Then obliging him, I rushed to Mandovi Hotel
where I was welcomed by Luizinho who was
seated in a secluded place adjoining the
Banquet Hall along with Agnelo Fernandes.
I was nobody of Cogress Party but a strong supporter of Congress not because I love the Party and the Partymen more but because others were worst but Luizinho Faleiro respected my
views that were published in the media and those views of mine were creating
strong opinion into the minds of the people.
This is the only reason I had then for inviting me for that Meet
otherwise I am just a small mosquito.
Then Luizinho Faleiro started saying that he, means Congress party would like to solicit my
support for its candidate in Calangute Constituency and went on further uttering the big name with big volume of his
voice to impress upon me to toe his line in the name of Sonia Gandhi saying that “MADAME SONIA Gandhi has instructed me to get
by all means the victory for Congress Party in Goa and in this direction said
he, I am doing everything possible and for this goal we need your support. Then I asked him who are your
contestants? Are they capable?
For this he answered saying “this time I have selected a very good team
of young dynamic candidates and they
will do a very good job. Then I
told Luizinho Faleiro with a very
serious tone of mine in front of Agnelo Fernandes with whom at that time my
personal relationship was not good as it was with many of the people from Candolim. However, as a matter of fact Agnelo Fernandes
created ill image of his by acting extremely hard and arrogant with his local
supporters, then I spoke like this “ Baba Luizin, you may field any dynamic and youthful
team but I will support a candidate in our Constituency who is good in all
respects even morally and spiritually but I will never support a defeated
candidate in the last election because people will never vote for him once
they have rejected him at the husting. Incidentally Agnelo Fernandes was the defeated candidate of Congress in the previous election and he contested from
Luizinho Faleiro the way he was talking
to me was giving an impression thru his body language that he was like the
whole and sole of Congress Party and Sonia Ghandi whom he addresses as
Madame. But within 4 years where is
Luizinho Faleiro? Is he disappeared from
the Congress Party that he was promoting? Now, again I tell all the Parties and their
Candidates, do not dump on our heads
idiots and tell us to vote for them since Congress Party has got the habit of
doing the selection of their candidates from closed door rooms. This time also I am sure they will select
such an idiot whom voters and Congres suppoters must reject now. Let the message go to Congress and their High
Command that we will never support a candidste imposed on us from Delhi who does
not have proper knowledge of Goa and what type of candidate Goans want. We the voters must be firm in our resolve to
defeat the Congress candidate who is not a people choice but the choice of some
chamchas of Congress Party. Congress must tell
Girish the Congress President of Goa to be careful, Girish himself is not capable to handle his job, he receives
no full allegiance from his partymen, his
leadership is very weak, in fact he cannot speak properly, Congress Party should
select a people friendly candidate whose
public relations is excellent. We will never be a candidate coming from the back door by using his financial and physical power,
we do not want a candidate who thinks great for him and we never want a
candidate who does not want to hello a common man.
For the time bein I halt it here but surely
I will come back shortly on this topic because Congress Party will put us in big
problem by selecting unfit candidates who
will be most probably an anti-people candidate.
FINALLY, since the last election Congress party fought its election on the plank where it was not shown nor anywhere any
indication given WHO WIL BE ITS CHIEF MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE? And in fact
because this subject was not clearly
specified, there was a “Q” at the eleventh hour of all the seniors to put his
claim for the Chief Minister. Now, to
avoid its re-occurrence, we must have and for which we demand in advance the
name of Chief Ministerial candidate.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
