CARMO SANTOS ON MAMATA BANARJEE.

This is in response to Veronica's article in this forum on yesterday under the heading "SULMAN RUSHDIE &  HIS ENTRY BAN IN KOLKATA - INDIA"

"No doubt, your write-up is execellant in details. Mamata Banerjee is a PUPPET,  I should say without head or tail. Such wonderful project of TATA she removed and sent to Gujarat as big GIFT to NAMA (Narendra Modi ) and now he is enjoying the cream with the business style. Ratan Tata and Ambani's are visiting him in Gujarat and he became a hero.

Mamata put her nose anywhere without thinking, neither understanding the benEfits for her people or developements in Bengal.

Hilary Clinton also visited her to cool down with her hard hit brain but useless".

Carmo Santos,

Kuwait.

SULMAN RUSHDIE & HIS ENTRY BAN IN KOLKATA-INDIA.

The man a foreign national of Indian origin arriving in India as a legal visitor is accepted by Indian government to enter into India but the same man is rejected in West Bengal by the Kolkata government of Mamata Banarjee. He was Sulman Rushdie coming to attend the Book Fair at Kolkata. By rejecting his entry into Kolkata the State government of Kolkata trampled under its dirty feet the freedom of an individual who is considered as the world renowned literary figure. Not only Rushdie’s freedom was curtailed but by this draconian act Mamata Banarjee displayed her Hitlerism which all the freedom loving civilised people in India and outside India must condemn as I do now thru this piece.

Bengal in general and Calcutta in particular was known to carry strong movement for the free thinking, free expressing and free moving. The great freedom loving people of India Rabindranath Tagore and Subash Chandra Bose who were the sons of this very Bengal that rejected Sulman Rushdie the free thinker citizen of this planet, were the making of free thinking movement of Bengali soil. By rejecting Rushdie the tin pot chief Minister of West Bengal Ms Mamata Banarjee degraded the greatness of Tagore, Bose and other well-known freedom loving free thinkers of Bengal.

Citing a silly reason of her inability to provide sufficient security for Rushdie is a Baby excuse. For one individual person Mamata’s government cannot provide bare minimum security then Mamata Bannarjee got no right to head her government in West Bengal. The author of Satanic Verses Sulman Rushdie since the Fatwa issued against him by Iranian Khomeini has travelled in many parts of the world even those parts where security risk for him was the worst yet nothing happened to him and only Kolkata is more risk oriented? Silly argument. Mamata Banarjee played this trick only to please some Islamic fundamentalists who are against Sulman Rushdie and thereby create a Muslim Vote Bank for her party during the next election.

Last week by banning Sulman Rushdie from entering Kolkata the government of West Bengal put not only government of India into a big shame but also all the free thinking people of India.

For the freedom movement of India Bengal created a very strong base and standing on that base men like Tagore and others challenged the mighty might of British Empire till free India was born. Is it not ironic that the same Bengal under the leadership of Mamata Bannarjee now destroyed the tradition of freedom in West Bengal? What freedom suppressor British afforded in India the free India denied in Kolkata.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

CM TAKES A JIBE AT GOVERNORS.

 

By Aires Rodrigues

While bull dozing through the draconian amendments to the Goa Lokayukta Act, the Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Parrikar tried every trick under his sleeve to defend and justify his wrong move. He went to the extent of saying that Governors are partisan and being political appointees could act as puppets of the Central government.

I can only remind Manohar Parrikar that when the BJP was ruling at the Centre we had BJP puppet Governors posted in Goa in Late Kidar Nath Sahani (26-10-2002 to 2-7-2004) and the earlier Mohammed Fazal (26-11-1999 to 25-10-2002)

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had during his election campaign last year promised that only professionals and not politicians would be appointed on all the Corporations and Boards. He has however overloaded them all with his political cronies despite some of them being tainted. Even the State Law Commission was not spared. The politician Chairman now stands charge sheeted with serious offences by the CBI.

There should definitely be a rethink in the manner Governors and Advocate Generals are selected and appointed. Only the best and the brightest should filter through.

Currently Goa is very fortunate to have Mr. B.V Wanchoo as Governor. A tall pro-active personality who does not carry any political stink whatsoever. And like him the last very competent and no nonsense Governor we had was Lt General J.F.R Jacob (19-4-1998 to 26-11-1999)

On the current Advocate General the less said the better. After having defended the mining lobby, Casinos and the builders, how can he now fairly advise the Goa Government on these vital issues? Even after taking over as Advocate General he continues to be the legal brain for the mining magnates. It can not get any worse as far as the First Law officer of our State is concerned.