DISMISS VISHWAJIT OR FACE MORE TROUBLE.

“If I cannot bring the necessary order in the Government Hospitals in Goa, then nobody will ever be able to do”, said once by the first Health Minister of Goa Mr. Karmali. He used to work day and night to give good service to the Goans just as they were getting during the Portuguese rule in Goan hospitals. Unfortunately with his relentless efforts he failed because the rot that we borrowed from Bharat serkar is too deep rooted in our system and in too short a time.  Government hospitals in Goa are plagued not only by the ill-equipped medical service with some arrogant doctors and rude nurses but administratively they are very ill administered by the low grade administrators. 

If the security personnel were a bit courteous and decent things would not have reached to the level it reached during the trouble between the two ladies and the Vishwajit Rane at Hospicio Margao.  The security manned by the uncultured personnel most of them are called “Ghanttis” should be held responsible first and secondly the Minister himself for acting like a Maharaja and expecting the same type of treatment from the staff and visitors in the hospitals. This is typical of Ranes behaviour during the Portuguese regime from whom they enjoyed lot of benefits. And falsely they considered themselves as anti-Portuguese.

There were “Xemaecheo Kannio” told us when we were young saying that Rannos were bad people.  Most of the bad habbits of those days were associated with Ranos. They were with the backing of Portuguese serkar living like Monarchs and acting like Monarchs only.  See that “kalcho-porcho potto” at Hospicio Hospital how he was speaking as if Goa and Hospicio were his father’s property.  He forgot that he was a public servant and instead he should have maintained certain decorum and not act like those who failed to show such a decorum while discussing.

Vishwajit Rane said “I am a minister and not a labourer” and as such he deserved decency from the ladies arguing with him.  Fine, but he should not expect the treatment of a Monarch though he is Monarch for his father and mother, for us he is a public servant and as such he must act as a servant and not as a feudal lord. Good that none of the ladies give a solid slap on his face though it was looking like happening.  But with this incident, assaulting the Ministers physically and verbally will be a routine happening. Both those ladies created a base for others to take the law into their hands.  There will be more violence now even kidnapping of Ministers’ children and grand children will take place because people are disgusted with the Ministers who are spreading lawlessness and corruption in every segment of our society.  

By the way, can a civilized and decent person treat a corrupt public servant with decency?  This is the big question. Is Vishwajit Rane not a “fotting”and a traitor? If not then why he deserted Congress and joined BJP?  Is he not a corrupt?  Which good person will respect him when he does not deserve respect? He has created a fear complex into the Medicos working in GMC and elsewhere with dire consequesces without proper reason. This will reflect on Parricar in the next election otherwise he should be sacked from Health Ministry because he is still a KID.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

BHIM TOXEM BHAT - SR. RANE & JR. RANE.

This incident I am quoting here happened somewhere in 1970-71, if I am not mistaken.  It happened in my village Candolim at Dr. Gustavo Monteiro Foot-ball ground during the inter-village football final between Saligao and the host Candolim.  I was one of the players playing for Candolm as captain of the team. The situation on the ground was fluid, the spectators in bigger number were favouring the Saligao team to win.  Suddenly there was an altercation between two players of each team that resulted in exchange of wrestlers blows between both the players, one Mr. Damu of Saligao and the other Lopes from Candolim.    Within a split of a second, the crowd from all sides invaded the ground and one could only hear the sound of blows.  The chief guest of the day was the then Law Minister of Dayananda Bandodcar,  Shri Prataphsing Raoji Rane the father of the current Health Minister of Goa, Shri Biswajit Rane who I am sure was not even born then. 

Sr. Rane while seated in the VIP Gallery, got up and spoke in his normal Hitlerian tone telling the people to stop fighting. Punaji Achrekar the then MLA of Saligao was accompanying Sr. Rane but favouring the existing commotion on the ground with his silent nod to the rowdies to carry on with the commotion because Candolim were winning the final. Then there were answers from the public to Rane to be silent because “you know nothing of football”.  For this,  Rane lost his temper and came out along with Achrekar and others from the host side escorting him, in the middle of the ground and started shouting like a "Bebdo" thus “Aum tumkam bienare, tumche sarkille anvem kitlech polleleat, aum student astana anv khusti khelpi ani anvuim zogddonk zanna”.  Hearing this undiplomatic tone and text containing nothing but “abuzad”, the people started abusing Rane with filthy words even directing against his non-Goan wife.  This type of rough language with raised voice did not suit the Minister, instead he should have used a soft tone with soft language to pacify the crowd who felt hurt by the wrong decision of the referee leading to this end.

In the same manner, in Margao at Hospicio Hospital Biswajit Rane also acted like his father earlier leading to the two ladies to lose their temper because they were hurt by the security.  The Jr. Rane was acting like a Hitler with his high tone and Hitlerian words like “You shut up”, “you don’t talk”.  As a Minister he should have cool down his temparement and taken both the ladies in a nice and civilized manner to any office inside and sorted out the differences but surely not the way he acted.  He acted thus because he is a kid meant to play “goddeancho khell”. Good that neither of the ladies slap on his face.  Because of his father he got political platform ready made and ministership without maturity, wisdom and required medical education to hold  the Health Ministry. This leads to the mockery of his job.  He will never be able to bring in changes there but will succeed in looting the public exchequer like others and if given a chance he will promote and  practice NARVENKARISM. These today’s “Kalche porche potte” while as Romeos are become MLA’s and ministers and ultimately what good one can expect from such kids? It is a shame for the voters from Valpoi to have such a "gorvam rakhnno type boy" as their representative who in the coming election must be voted out to teach him a very good lesson.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

   

GIANTS COLLAPSED IN THE PANCHAYAT ELECTION.

In the results declared recently of the Panchayat Election, like in the Assembly election, giants have collapsed, in many Wards. Those among the losers some were holding the monopoly of their Wards they considered as their kingdoms which will remain in their domain permanently. There was one man in  one locality who was telling that his Ward is like his own Kingdom where besides him nobody will win. “I am like a King of this Kingdom”, he used to boast with a sense of pride. Pity that man, after 20 years of bossing over his said Ward, he lost in this election and in his own so called Kingdom, to a mediocre candidate.

He lost because most of his voters were gunning him for the enormous amount of illicit money he collected in hard currency from the builders and hoteliers  by issuing licenses for them for buildings, plus property worth in crores and also innumerable concubines because excess of easy money leads to excess of illicit sex. On top of it he was acting like a Hitler in the Panchayat first as a Dpty. Sarpanch and later on as Sarpanch with the locals whenever they came for any work in the Panchayat. This was his pride because he did not know who he was.  He was just a "Rostad" son of his Rostad parents who failed to give him good discipline and character.  He thought Panchayat was his father’s property meant to take his personal revenge and anger against those who had personal conflict with him.  He a bloody Bastard used Panchayat to settle his personal score. Now I will not be surprised to know that an ordinary Man from his own locality assault him. Now he will be like a fish out of water without power though he may have money but money without political power is useless. Many of the past political giants now “ghora boson fugddeo galtat”.  It is a punishment for them for their past "dadagiri" and pride which they did on the strength of their political clout. They forgot that they were elected not to take their personal revenge but to serve the people.

Generally speaking among those who lost their elections in the recently concluded Panchayat election were those doing “Dadagiri” on the  strength of their physical prowess and financial power. Now that their dadagiri is gone they will be sick being unable to bear to be nobody. This is the worst punishment. I am sure many of them will be mental wreck. People will spit on them and on their family members as well who were also responsible in not stopping them from doing dadagiri and making illicit money. Many of them are Catholics and being so the local priests are also guilty of not reprimanding these political dadas from acting rude and arrogant. 

Are we worthy of the democracy that we are practicing now in Goa?  Do we deserve it?  Is it democracy or something else?  In my locality interested persons got their candidates elected by bribing the voters heavily, one source said in one particular Ward even Rs. 30,000/- was paid per vote.  In this way only the moneyed persons will get elected and when they are elected they will indulge in money making only. Is this democracy good for us? Who can afford to purchase votes by spending heavily?  Only those who made illicit money thru illicit means.  It is these people who are the real beneficiaries of this 'PONCH DEMOCRACY". This is the reason why India is backward in so many aspects when smaller nations freed much after India have made tremendous development.  It is because of our leaders who are robbing the real essence of democracy.  If at Panchayat level our democracy is so corrupt then how we will acquire best of benefits thru our democratically elected goons and cheats who will do nothing but go on robbing what is little left of Goa starting first from my locality the updates of same I will give as and when required.  

A.Veronica Fernandes.