ELECTION - PRIESTS - REVENGEFUL PANCHAYATS.

 

According to the fresh information the candidates of both the BJP and Congress are in full swing to canvass support for them in our localities in the North constituency as well as in the South Goa and their first contact point is priests and Church Pe. Vigars who as per my source assured them of their support. In this case I cannot understand how the Pe. Vigars assured them support when BJP is already known to be a communal party while the Church has openly declared its opposition to the communal parties. That the BJP is the worst communal party is a known fact needing no further certificate to confirm this. Cancelling of Christian holidays by Parrikar earlier was the clear proof of communalism perpatrated by the BJP under Parrikar.

In view of this how and why our Pe. Vigars entertained and welcomed the BJP candidates itself is a big question mark. Church stand is very clear on this issue to oppose communal forces and since BJP is one such force, it is the duty of our Pe. Vigars to turn down politely the request of BJP candidates to meet them to discuss this topic. BJP in Goa under Parrikar is the worst enemy not only of Christians but more than that of Christianity though the Christian MLA's of BJP are simply barking praises on BJP saying it is not a communal party because they are part of it. These Christian MLA's of BJP are "Yes Men", they are controlled thru remote control by Parrikar and if they talk like genuine Christians surely they will lose the Lollipops they are getting from Parrikar.

And for Congress its North Goa candidate is alleged to be tainted with Drug scandal in which case the Church should oppose such candidates for being sinful. Can Goa Church investigate this malady before the faithful are misguided by the Pe. Vigars from the Altars and Pulpits? The Pe. Vigar below my nose according to my information has already entertained the North Goa candidate and assured him of his Church support. If it is true then the said Pe. Vigar has made a big mistake by assuring support of his Church followers without their consent to a sinful man of one of the corrupt parties.

In the past, the then Pe. Vigar of Candolim Church Pe. Torrado one fine evening welcomed Dayananda Bandodkar in the Church office and assured him support of the local faithful. When I got this news I went to Pe. Torrado and warned him not to use Church Altar to canvass support for anti-Christian Bandodkar otherwise I told Pe. Torrado that I will confront him on the very same spot where he does the canvassing for anti-Christian and corrupt party MGP.

The faithful must not blindly follow the advices of our Pe. Vigars in the matters of voting. Many of our Pe. Vigars are corrupt and I understand that some of them are taking bribe in lakhs from the candidates for canvassing support for them from the faithful. It is not only the politicians who are prone to bribe but more than them are some of our Pe. Vigars who are currently become nuisance for the Church and to the faithful because they lost their sanity to think upright and to preach upright. We dont have Pe. Vigars now to control and guide the faithful in a proper way befitting their Christian religion otherwise there would never be in our community rampant immorality, divorces, concubinage, prostitution, separation of families, fights in the families, fighting of court cases between family members and relatives.

In our side and elsewhere in Goa as well the local Panchayats are become so arrogant and proud because power has gone into their heads. Power has gone into their heads because these Panchayats are manned by low calibre persons of Ladru-Pedru type coming from "Zopoddpotti" family background of "Chor & Bamtte". The members of these Panchayats refuse to accept dissent from the upright locals and to silence this dissenting voice they are punished with revengeful fury by the Panchayat members including by the Sarpanch when they approach Panchayat for any official work as if Panchayat is their fathers property. They must know one thing that they are elected to serve the people and not to take their personal revenge.

Ravi Naik and Shripad Naik if they want the votes for them from their supporters in our localities then they must first stop the Panchayat members in their villages from being revengeful. Many persons who accompany the candidates for canvassing are guilty of this type of revenge. And as a matter of retaliation, voters will refrain from voting the candidates who are seen accompanied by the revengeful MLA's, ex-MLA's', Sarpanchas and other Panchas. This is the only opportunity for the voters to show their power which they will surely show.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

POLITICIANS FROM CALANGUTE CONSTITUENCY.

According to the latest news, in Calangute constituency, both the former bitter foes Agnelo Fernandes ex MLA and Joseph Sequeira the leading Panch of Calangute have turned out to be friends once again.

In the last election for Goa Legislative Assembly both Joseph Sequeira and Agnelo Fernandes played a Tug Of War with their respective supporters for the  Calangute Constituency Seat and in the bargain with the help of Joseph Sequeira camp the soft spoken and humble man Michael Lobo won the Calangute Seat and Agnelo Fernandes lost the chance to retain his Seat thereby missing an opportunity to create a hat trick of wining this Seat for the third time.  While fighting their Tug of War, both Fernandes and Sequeira created enmity not only between both of them but also between their supporters as well. 

Now as per the latest information they have patched up their differences and joined hands together to defeat the BJP candidate in the North in the coming Lokh Sabah Election.  Though not impossible to defeat BJP yet they must know that North Goa segment is not a Calangute constituency alone and moreover Calangute constituency is not Candolim and Calangute villages only, it is much beyond that over which the power of Sequeira and Fernandes is very limited.  In view of this they must not exaggerate their power. They must know as Shakespeare said that there are more things in Heaven than what they dreamt.

Besides, Michael Lobo hailing from Parra village which is a part of Calangute constituency is wielding lot of influence and goodwill even from his earlier adversaries because of the good work he is doing in his constituency even though some of his earlier colleagues now turned enemies are intentionally keeping blind to this fact. Moreover, he is not using vindictive tactics against his opponents as third class Panchas, Sarpanchas and MLA’s are doing in their localities and constituencies to harass the locals unnecessarily.

Though now Sequeira and Fernandes are become friends after a bitter tussle earlier to gain the supremacy of Calangute constituency, their respective supporters who unnecessarily and blindly also created enmity among them to support their masters are still on belligerent mood.  Who is responsible for this discord?  Are not both the masters who are using their supporters to get benefit for them? These supporters are now in a state of dilemma knowing not in what direction they will have to move. In this case the leaders became friends while their supporters are still remaining enemies. Both the leaders thought only of their personal interest without considering the interest of their supporters who according to one source have been cheated.

For sure we got the information that both Sequeira and Fernandes are become friends again but never heard the same has happened to their respective supporters.

 

Meantime, let us hope the friendship between Joseph and Fernandes lasts for longer period and not just a honeymoon period as normally happened in the past.

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Goa.

PADREAK NIB VONNACHEM.

“PADREAK NIB VONNACHEM”, says one Konkani proverb and this is what has happened to both the rejected heavyweight Congressmen Churchill Alemao and Francisco Sardinha, the former revolted when his demands were rejected. Both are ageing and as such they should both retire from active politics taking cue of what George Bernard Shaw has said , that is, “a man after 40 is a rascal and unable to think properly”.

 

I fail to digest the logic of Sardinha to remain in the Parliament till eternity, he should accept the fact that after completing a long inning as MP he should accept the verdict of his party and go out gracefully instead  of resisting and defying the party.  As a party member he should abide by the party decision. In fact he should be thankful to Congress Party for retaining him till now otherwise he should have been suspended from Congress when he was involved in the Marks scandal for his Subrinha and debarred from the Party when as a traitor he revolted and joined hands with Parrikar’s BJP to form his own government.  Now, clandestinely he pushed his son to contest the election to split the votes but his son beyond his own house compound wall is an unknown entity having only nuisance value.  Without father's blessing son would never go ahead in contesting election to split the Congress votes.  Congress Party without any delay should throw out Sardinha from the Congress otherwise from inside he will do more harm to Congress than from outside. 

After the forcible annexation of Goa by Bharat, Dr. Gaitontde and Dr. Antonio Colaco were sent to the Parliament as nominated MP’s.  Immediately, Freedom Fighter Roque Santan Fernandes organized a Hunger Strike against the nomination of Dr. Colaco accusing him of Chmcha of Portuguese government.  Immediately Premier Nehru sent for Fernandes and when he met Nehru in Delhi, according to one source, Nehru told him “you deserve only one Seat but I gave you two and for these only two Seats you are making such a big nuisance?”

 

 

Both the two Parliamentary Seats of Goa are like a drop in the ocean but ironically because of both these two Seats whole of Goa is shaking as if 200 Seats are at stake. Both the MP’s are incapable of creating an extra ordinary impact in the Parliament as in the past; they will only enjoy the financial benefits, doles and other facilities for themselves and for their families. Very few people know how and where Sardinha and other MP's have spent the money allotted to them as MP's by the Central government.

Both the rejected persons are giving silly excuses accusing Congress High Command because they cannot accept to be nobody after enjoying the status of somebody. Both the Congressmen want to foist their kiddy children like many others, on Goa as if they are extraordinary politicians. These kids are nuisance in Goan politics.  In fact they are immature political babies deserving no seats even in the village Panchayat. There is no public demand for them in Salcette to contest the election because they are not President Roosevelt in  US producing extra ordinary economic "New Deal" which made the American public to force Roosevelt to contest the election for the third time by going against the two term precedent. 

 

For both these Congress rebels Congress Party was good when their demands were accepted but bad when their demands were rejected. For this reason they give all the excuses to justify their revolt because it is said  “Padreak Nib Vonnachem”.

A.      Veronica Fernandes,
Goa.