SAXTTIKAR - THEN AND NOW.

After the victory of Goans in the historic Opinion Poll, Dr. Jack Sequeira was, as I was told then, asked how he took the risk of accepting Opinion Poll when MGP forces were in full swing under their anti-Goan, anti-Konkani and anti-Christian leader Dayananda Bandodkar, to devour Goa bodily and soully, Dr. Sequeira replied thus: “ I had full confidence in my Saxttikar brothers and sisters who will not let Goa down and finally it was these people who saved Goa from getting liquidated from the world map”. In fact it was a big risk that Dr. Sequeira took and if we lost the verdict in favour of Merger, oh my God!! What would be the fate of Dr. Sequeira and his followers and ultimately of Goa?

The love for Goa, Konkani and Goan causes shown by the Saxttikars and the sacrifices they made for the sake of Goa will remain in the history of Goa written in golden capital letters. The freedom fighters coming from Salcette are genuine while many of them from North Goa were fake who involved in freedom movement not to drive Portuguez out of Goa but to drive Goan Christians out of Goa as if Goa belongs to Hindus only. Some of the top Goan Freedom fighters are from Salcette and they are all Christians. And as a matter of fact, the great Goan freedom fighter Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes from Navelim, Salcette, who even raised his voice against Portuguese colonialism from European soil was a Christian. He was so brave and intellectual that he went to Portugal and asked from Portugal freedom for Goa. He was not a communal and showed no anti-Hindu feelings as many of the Hindu freedom fighters from North Goa showed their bias against Goan Christians. The residual parts from them who are still surviving are still showing their anti-Christian tirade as if Goan Christians are pro-Portuguez and theyalone are pro-Bharat.

During the 15 years of MGP rule in Goa, the entire Salcette suffered having no development done by MGP Government, first under Dayananda Bandodkar and then under his daughter Shashikala Kakoddkar. This was like a punishment meted out to Salcette by the MGP government for supporting UGP. Yet, our Saxttikars never relented and remained firm for Goa and for their principles in support of Goan causes. During MGP rule North Goa received full backing for its development while South Goa got step motherly treatment.

During the language agitation Saxttikars supported this movement like anything with the strong backing of Ilhaskars and because of such a tremendous support Konkani got recognition paving the way for the statehood for Goa.

In Kuwait also Saxttikar gave tremendous support for the Goan causes especially for Konkani movement. Many of my colleagues and supporters in Konkani movement from Kuwait were my brothers and sisters from Salcette. I found in them lot of enthusiasm for fighting for the right cause of Goa and given the right type of leadership they will support any Goan cause for the good of Goa and Goans.

But now what is happening in Goa in Salcette and with Salcettkars is really sickening. The way things are going on in Salcette it looks Saxttikars have already lost their sanity to think right and to act right. When UGP merged wholesomely with Congress, first with Congress – U and later on with Congress – I, our Saxttikars lost their earlier political uprightness. There appeared total chaos among politicians there. Corrupt Politicians like Churchill Alemao, Mauwin Godingo, Dr. Proto Barbosa and others like them who got elected on anti-MGP platform openly embraced MGP by defecting from the Congress Party. All these defectors shamelessly took political shelter under the “GAGRO” of Shashikala Kakodkar. From here the corruption took a firm grip of Goa because defectors wanted money and to make money corruption was the only route which all the defectors followed without any shame. While the corrupt defectors took their stand of defecting unilaterally, the powerful voters’ force of the defectors remained silent accepting the defections blindly. This force became silent observer of the wrong decisions taken by their elected representatives.

The first ever defection in Goa under Bandodkar Government took place in late sixties, 5 UGP MLA’s defected to MGP, one of them was Valente Sequeira from Calangute constituency. One of the Calangute voters and strong supporters of UGP Mr. Pedro Coutinho when he got this news, in his Royal Enfield Bullet he sped to Valente’s residence at Candolim to shake Valente but knowing Pedro's anger Valente went underground for few days and resurfaced in the Assembly for vote of confidence. Otherwise Pedro would tear Valente Sequeira into pieces. Immediately with the support of all Pedros from Calangute constituency, UGP held a public meeting at Calangute soccer ground and tore Valente’s credibility into pieces to the extent that for the next election Valente became a big Zero.

Surprisingly there was no Pedro Coutinho in any of the Salcette constituencies to question any of the defectors when PDF Governemnt was formed with the support of Congress defector MLA’s. Why the Salcette voters remained silent and still they are doing the same, of course unfortunately? They have lost their zeal to fight for justice. Because they lost their zeal to fight for justice their representatives are fooling them. If they were really interested in fighting for justice they would not allow SAVE GOA MLA’s to jump into Congress for the love of Loaves and Bread for themselves. Or the Salcette voters are become purchasable commodities? By their silence over the defections of their representatives they are allowing corruption to flourish not only in their areas and constituencies but all over Goa as well. By this corruption process they make entire Goa the victim of corruption. Currently most of the corrupt elected representatives are from South Goa and regretfully they are all Christians practicing anti-Christian ways and to gain benefits for them and for their families they are corrupting the whole of Goa. Thru their corrupt practices they are crucifying Christ again and again. Their going to Pota and Vailankani and adoring Fulanco Khris at Bambolim is all external show. Today Goa is suffering because of the cursed corrupt leaders from South Goa and more because they are elected by the corrupt voters from the South Goa only.

When Dr. Jack Sequeira imposed his friend Dr. Willie D’Souza from Anjuna on the voters of Colva, the Colva voters refused to accept a foreigner from outside Colva constituency in their own constituency even though Dr. Willie represented UGP and instead the Colva voters elected their own representative Luto Ferrao contested from MGP ticket. This showed the firm stand taken by Colva voters against UGP for fielding an outsider in their Colva citadel. That was the might of Saxttikar then to fight for their right but now any Ladru – Pedru from Salcette contest from anywhere in Salcette and their respective voters are getting them elected. These voters now are not asking why they should elect a foreigner in their own constituency? Are the current voters become purchasable commodities in Salcette? It looks like.

I don’t understand why Saxttikar once acting like Tigers to save Goa are now become Goats in front of the butchers. When Sardinha embraced BJP thereby giving a strong foothold to communal BJP in Goa, surprisingly the entire Salcette remained dumb like goats thereby accepting Sardinha’s political "harakiri". But earlier during the Konkani agitation when Curtorim constituents came to know the chicanery of Sardinha towards Konkani, they went and destroyed his house thereby bringing sanity to Sardinha to act upright towards Konkani cause.

When Mathanay Saldanha embraced BJP after getting elected from different party not a single soul from Cortalim objected Saldanha’s wrong move. On the contrary he was treated like a hero. Cortalim voters are on record to change the course of support for 2 Leaves during the Opinion Poll thereby killing the lead of Flower and thus destroy the might of anti-Christian MGP. But now how they accepted their own representative Mathanay Saldanha to embrace communal and anti-Christian BJP was the big question mark. And can anyone imagine a man like Mathanay Saldanha turning a Judas when in the past he was hailed as the most upright politician? Was it not money in crores that forced him to change his original self?

In Kuwait also the trend among Saxttikars is changing very fast. Currently many of the Saxttikars are become “PONCH” and because they are so, some of them, as alleged, are doling their wives and daughters to the corrupt Goan visiting politicians. The greatness of earlier Saxttikars has gone forever. Current crop is only interested in money and fake honour which they get from the visiting corrupt Goan politicians. But this tamasha is only a temporary. The biggest robbers who robbed the Goan community funds to the tune of lakhs are from Salcette, all from Curtorim. The biggest sex maniac in our community demanding sex in exchange of jobs is also a Saxttikar coming also from Curtorim only. This man known for committing the sin of Narvenkarism was also responsible to devour the funds in Goa collected by Kuwait Goan Evacuees Society. All their supporters and colleagues are equally guilty for keeping their silence on these robberies and mischief.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

REPLY TO " MAN OF THE MASSES??"

Francisco Fernandes has left a new comment on your post "MAN OF THE MASSES??":

Veronica,

Great article hats of to you. The so called Man of masses in Goa must be having sleepless nights now, not that he was sleeping peacefully everynight before. The so called Man of masses days are now NUMBERED. His end and the parivar end will be a sad affair. I do not understand why he calls himself the Man of masses, is it a tag the goan press gave him or it is a self proclaimed tag he took it himself? or is it a tag his UNPAD circle of advisers gave him? He should be ashamed to call himself that.

Man of masses are the likes of Gandhiji , Raj Narayan, Annna Hazare I would call them the people of masses. Men of masses are the ones sitting in their home towns and wake up the rest of the country with their honest speaches, they have to be clean to themself 1st and then the rest but our so called Man of masses is a Judas. He is a traitor who will always see his benifits first. He has learned the lesson during the PDF Goverment time. He mastered the ART during that time and now he thinks he is the BADSHA, not for long my friend your time is comming. I have my own reservation of his downfall now.

Here are just few things now will crop up.

1. Smugling case will come up.
2. Corruptions cases will be filed against the Parivar.
3. He knows that one more time he talks of bringing the goverment down he is a dead man so mark my words he will never bring it out again.
4. Save Goa party is still a registered party in Goa so what he claims of merger is not entity and chances are there of his and the other MLA's DISQUALIFICATION.

These are just a few of my thoughts are bound to happen so I am anxioulsy waiting for that and God will show it soon. Just going to every religious place and bowing to the GODS does not make a person a saint. This type of people who does it are HYPOCRITES in front of the living and the Almighty.

The so called Man of masses resignation treats to Kamat is to Blackmail Digu and my reliable source tells me the reson that Digu and the Man of masses brothers have invested about 600 cr Rupees in a deal of mining in Sanvorden which is on the brothers name but Digu's MONEY IS INVOLVED that is why he takes the shit from them. Watch out people it will come out during the election time as BJP is all geared up to Fire the Missile.

Well Veronica, you keep writing as we appreciate and like your write up which does awaken people and if you do that for a few more times its a big achievement.

Thanks,
Francisco Fernandes.

Note: I also read the Reproduced article of Raj Narayan and believe what is written must be true facts and that is why the PARIVAR is quiet now as they know the END is comming. PADRIN SONTESAUN LAILEN PUN DEVASHIN SUAT NA ANI NAN MUMNON DEVCHARASHIN so the man of masses wil ROT here and we will see his sorry end.

MAN OF THE MASSES??

During these days lot of statements are coming out in Goa saying Mr. X or Mr. Y or Mr. Z is the man of the masses. A few politician Misters are also claiming to be the men of the masses. In fact in Goa we never had a real man of the masses. During the Portuguese time in Goa some priests were dubbed as men of the masses but in fact to qualify in this category these priests have not done anything to eradicate the man made differences prevalent even in the Church arena against the masses. The originator of Christianity Jesus Christ said “Love thy neighbour – fellow man – as you love thy God”. The so called man of the masses the holy priests loved their God but discriminated or closed their eyes for the rampant discriminations going on in the Church hierarchy and in the Church arena against the masses. In this way they loved their God but disliked their neighbours comprising vast majority of masses. Such persons cannot be the men of the masses.

Man made differences were very prevalent in Goa Church since time immemorial and I cannot understand how the two holy Goan priests namely Pe. Agnelo and Pe. Jose Vaz tolerated such differences in the Church especially caste based differences. They should have even discarded their priestly robes like Fr. Torres in South America to fight such apartheid in the Church. Both these Goan priests have disowned their responsibility towards the masses and thus failed to please Jesus Christ in action. May be because of this fault of theirs inspite of being on the brink of the sainthood for such a long period, they are still awaiting sainthood.

It was in 1961, civil rightist Baptist Pastor Martin Luther King in USA one day while preaching his homily to his congregation rapped the apartheid system practiced even in the house of God. According to the existing unwritten law of the Church there, Whites were to occupy the Benches on the right side while the Blacks on the left side thereby showing the display of segregation openly even in the house of God. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Martin Luther preached telling the Whites thus: “If you cannot integrate with the masses pointing out to the Blacks, you will never integrate with Christ because Christ is come from the masses and these people with black skin are come from the masses”. For political gains to get the support of the Blacks some Whites attending that service were calling themselves as Men of the masses but when Martin Luther preached his sermon their chicanery was exposed.

Among the lay Christians, Goa never produced man of the masses because being Goan Christians they opposed each other for the supremacy. During Portuguez time there were many great Goans but they never worked for the masses and as such they did not qualify themselves to be called men of the masses.

After the exit of Portuguese from Goa, from nowhere a Hindu Dayananda Bandodkar came on Goan political scene and he showed his total affiliation to his Hindu community especially for the poor and low grade Hindus. The low grade Hindus whom we called Bahujan Samaz started adoring Bandodkar like a God. He was called as the Man of the Masses. But he showed his love only to the Hindu Masses as if there is no Christian Bahujan Samaz. Because of this he was called the biggest communal Goan. It was he who communalised Goa after the exit of Portuguese and the seeds of communalism he sowed on Goan soil are still reaping the nice harvest for the communal Goans. Such people cannot be called the men of the masses or leaders of Bahujan samaz. Samaz is based on class of people and not on the religious affiliation of the people.

THE MAIN IMPORTANT FACOTR FOR ANY MAN TO CALL HIMSELF AS MAN OF THE MASSES OR OF BAHUJAN SAMAZ, ONE HAS TO IDENTIFY IN ALL RESPECTS WITH THE MASSES OR BAHUJAN SAMAZ..

The late Purshottoma Kakoddkar was a good friend of mine. As a member of Parliament he and me from Kuwait exchanged views on Konkani. He disliked the usage of the word Konknni because according to him it should be KONKANI since it incepted from the region KONKAN and as such it should be Konkani and not Konknni. During one of my trips to Goa, I was invited to attend the meeting of Konknni Lekhok Song at TB Cunha Hall, Panjim where coincidentally he happened to be there. "He wished me and paid very rich complimets for my movement in Kuwait and from Kuwait for the cause of Konkani. He said it is easy to do such movements in Goa but extremely difficult in a country like Kuwait where you have few facilities and less freedom and inspite of these hurdles you are doing commendable job. I salute you, he said".

Coming back to the subject, in early seventies Mr. Kakodkar was contesting parliamentary election on Congress ticket from North Goa Seat. Bandodkar’s MGP was opposing him while Dr. Sequeira’s UGP was supporting him by affiliating with Indira’s Congress Party. Bandodkar was fresh from Birla scandal where he was accused of doling Licence to Birlas to start a Factory at Zuari Nagar in exchange of a gift of new imported Buick Car. Purshottoma Kakodkar wanted to defeat MGP’s candidate for which he was accusing Bandodkar like hell. In one his statements during his election public meeting at Azad Maidan Panjim he thrashed Bandodkar saying ‘He calls himself as the leader of Bahuja Samaz. It is not correct. He is not the leader of Bahujan Samaz – He is not the man of the masses – he is a fake. Calling himself a man of Bahujan samaz and moving in rich car Buick? Is Bahujan samaz man using costliest car Buick meant for non-Bahujan Samaz? Can Bandodkar qualify himself to be called the man of Bahujan Samaz when he amassed so much of wealth? Can a man from Bahujan Samaz live like a Maharaja at rich area Panjim Altinho in a posh Bungalow? Will a Bahujan Samaz man receive bribes from others to get the Government’s project passed? Is he living like a man from Bahujan samaz? Is his standard identifying the standard of Bahujan samaz?”

I am the man of the masses, says a politician in Goa. Can such a man qualify to call himself as man of the masses even though he was born, brought up and worked as a proletarian before amassing ill gotten wealth thru bribes and corruption? There is not a single person in Goa who can be called the man of the masses. Man of the masses will identify himself with the masses not by living like a Maharaja in a Government given Bunglow at Panaji Altinho. Man of the masses will never accept bribes from the masses for the government work. Man of the masses will never move and act like a Lord. Man of the masses will never use money and muscle power to dissipate his political and other opponents. Man of the masses will never act proud and arrogant especially with those from whom he received so much of prominence and support. Man of the masses will never purchase votes on the contrary voters will voluntarily vote freely for him if he is the real man of the masses. A corrupt person who promote corruption by selling Government jobs to the highest bidders cannot be the man of the masses. Man of the masses does not promote family members in public life but men from the masses. Man of the masses identifies himself with the masses in all respects. Do we have such men in Goa to call them as Men of the masses? NOT AT ALL. Hence, there is no Man of the Masses in Goa. The most they may be the men of their villages or constituencies but never of Goa. Inspite of this if any politician calls himself a man of the Goan masses then he is a liar, traitor, crook, corrupt and Not The Real Son Of His Real Father.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.