I OPPOSE THE NAMING OF 3RD MANDOVI BRIDGE AFTER BANDODCAR.

In the Times of India dated 09.01.19, there appeared a news item saying “Name 3^rd Bridge after Bandodcar” and further elaborating that “Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party’s Mapusa block committee has written to PWD and Transport minister Ramakrishna Dhavalikar stating that the third Mandovi bridge be named Bhausab Bandodcar Bridge.  The MGP block committee has passed a resolution to this effect”.

I, on behalf of all the like minded Goans strongly oppose this naming business of third Mandovi Bridge after the most disgraceful anti-Goan and Maharastra/Marathi inclined Dayananda  Bandodcar.  This man was nothing but a curse on Goa and today we are suffering the disease of “bhaile” dominating in Goa it is mainly because of this originally “bhailo” Bandodcar who or whose elders settled in the village of Bandodda from where they derived their Surname for them.  The ”bhaile” who are settled in greater number in the north Goa created a vote Bank for MGP because they inclined towards their ancestry originating in the neighbouring parts of Maharastra. For this reason Bandodcar counted on them vowing to reunite them with their ancestral land and they too were happy about it because they were interested in robbing the Goans of their genuine culture, tradition, language, folklore and everything that is Goan and imposing on Goa everything “bhailem”.

During the Portuguese regime Bandodocar was living as a slave of Portuguese saying every time “Sim Senhor” to the Portuguese personnel and even giving in writing as per one source, his total allegiance to Portugal but once Portuguese were ousted from Goa he indicated his hidden anger not only on genuine Goans but more on Goan Christians by forming MGP to merge Goa with Maharastra and thereby to strip Goan Christians of their culture, tradition, history, language (Konkani in Roman Script), their folk songs, folk plays, folk tales and everything Goans that was protected so tightly by the Goan Christians.   He wanted to make Goan Christian as second class citizens in Goa.  He created an impression that Goan Christians have enjoyed better life in Goa during Portuguese regime and they had better rapport with the Portuguese.  This thought of Bandodcar was wrong.  In fact it is the Hindu community in Goa including Bandodcar himself that enjoyed better facilities and better life in Goa because it is they who held full control of the Trade and Commerce in Goa.  Who were the Chowgules, Dempos, Salgaocars, Shantilals, Caculos, Timblos and so many others?  No doubt a good percentage of the lower strata of Hindus have faced lot of difficulties but the Christians were not responsible for this plight of theirs, along with them even the lower strata of the Christians also suffered. However, Christians always took care of them when charitable food items were distributed to them along with poor Christians at regular intervals in the Church. These items were sent from abroad by the Christian organizations for the poor in Goa. Now,  to improve the quality of these poor Hindus what have all the top millionaire businessmen have done?  To alleviate their financial and social standing all these top businessmen could have done so much but they were crook, they were selfish, instead they on the contrary, at least many of them, told the lower segment of Hindus that their prevailing financial and social plight was due to the step-motherly treatment given to you by the Portuguese affording preferential treatment  to the Christians.

Goaan Christians from the lower segment have  not received any preferential or special treatment from the Portuguese.  In fact they put in extra effort to develop themselves by taking risks and going abroad, first to Bombay, then to  Karachi and then to “Tarvar”, Gulf and many other places in the world. By journeying to the outside world for the sake of their livelihood they made lot of sacrifices facing lot of risks.  Their Church supported this move of theirs and not opposed them in the name of their Gods and Goddesses. By being Christians means to bind oneself by his religious belief to help others, to co-operate with others and to live in harmony and peace with his fellow being and above all to love his fellow human beings.   Because of their iconic principle of Love, Christians are acceptable by anyone, Christians are not much known to own the houses of Bhattkars and of others, Chritstians are not much known to usurp the land of others for them, Christians are not known much for duping those from whom they received loans to purchase Buses, Cars, Bikes and to construct houses and to do the business.  Christians in the greater sense were accepted by anybody because by virtue of being Christians and the followers of Christ, to a much greater extent they are sincere, faithful, truthfull and not crook.

The name for the 3^rd Mandovi Bridge should be given from anyone Goan from any community who has done great service for Goa by being a perfect secular, perfect lover of Konkani, promoter of Goan Culture, tradition, history and other aspects of Goan life. Dayananda Bandodcar was not a true Goan, he was a fake Goan, he worked against the interest of genuine Goans. He worked for the destruction of Goan language Konkani and instead tried to impose a foreign language Marathi on Goa from nowhere. This was the game of lying and cheating which he played well but ultimately failed to win because of our victory in the historic Opinion Poll.  He made open distinction between Hindus and Christians by leaning towards Hindus mainly the lower segment of Goan society, in fact he believed and acknowledged only the “Bahujan samaz” from the Hindus as if among the Christians there was no Bahujan Samaz.  His hatred and disliked for the Goan Christians was open and clear. And for such person to bring him to the pedestal by naming the Third Mandovi Bridge  after him will be doing injustice to Goa and Goans. 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

WARNING TO CONGRESS PARTY IN GOA.

The greater number of Seats the Goan voters gave to Congress in the last Goa Legislative Assembly election was definitely not for the love of Congress but it was surely for the dislike of the BJP. However, inspite of this fact, the Congress Party failed us in forming the government thereby defeating our purpose of giving them on silver platter the highest number of Seats.  In fact because of their Sins they deserved not even 25% of what they received. Now, what guarantee is there that they will not repeat the similar types of occurrences in the coming election if they  get the greater number of Seats again?  For this reason much in advance I suggest to the Congress party first only to put its house into order and declare its Chief Ministerial candidate in advance.

The Congress party in Goa is in the hands “Chors” otherwise let them all headed by my locality “bhav” who is the master crook of extorting bribe from the people and instill fear into their hearts by taking personal revenge against them, disclose their source of income to build their business empires. Congress Party is currently in the hands of “Rostad” who got no love for the party nor for its principles but in the name of Congress Party they want power in their hands.  And on top of it, our cunning “bhav” who is the most corrupt politician of Goa, when he was in power he was acting like a member of Czarist clan dealing with his opponents in his locality ruthlessly even with his relatives and neighbours. He refused to accept the dissent from anyone in his locality preferring whatever he wants it must be done. When he was in power local people were living in fear because this rascal was harassing the locals especially his adversaries, demanding bribe heavily for any work in the local Panchayat that made him super hero of the type of Hitler.  According to his command, all the files should be sent to his house and when he finished his job of obtaining from the owners of those files his bribe, then only he used to release the files of course by distributing the “quota” of all the Beggars ruling the Panchayat.   In fact his Panchayat administrative power he usurped in such a manner that he was acting as “de facto” Panchayat that means no file  could move forward without his approval. This is the class of very many Congressmen. In fact during his hey days mothers from his locality used to put their children to sleep by taking his name, saying “baby, go – go to sleep, he is coming, go to sleep quickly otherwise he will take you in his sack and put you in the jungle because he is the king of jungle raj”. For this reason he got a royal kick on his back in the last election.

According to the news in circulation in my locality he is clamouring to contest the next election though he knows his chances are very bleak because of which he was for the last election uprooted from his own constituency and implanted elsewhere where he suffered the most humiliating defeat from his opponent. Earlier in the previous election from his own constituency he also suffered the most resounding defeat because people have realized how corrupt he is and because of this he was voted out and even in the coming election if at all he ventures to contest, all the locals with whom he acted like Hitler must join together to unify their efforts to give him a very nasty defeat.  Such rascals are not meant to become the MLA’s nor Sarpanches neither Panch Members because they are revengeful, traitors, bribe extortionist and sex maniacs.  They don’t possess any virtue to impress upon the voters. In one word they are worse than Barberians. Election is the right time for the common men especially to those who were earlier treated badly by their elected representatives, to show the power of their votes.  That he will receive the defeat is a sure fact even if he contests from the most safest constituency because people from all over Goa recognized his modus operandi of “once got his work done then discard the person from whom he received the benefits”.  I hereby caution Mr. Girish the Congress President as I warned last time Luizinho Faleiro that beware of this Saddam Hussein, in his mind there is nothing but “Kande & Bottatte” which helps him to be aggressive and revengeful. Let all who faced his persecution join together and throw him out of the reach of Ccongress Ticket in the coming election.  Now if gets thru then like a wounded Lion he would do nothing but act as a revengeful man by going after his adversaries to quench the thirst of his anger. This type of job these people are good to do because they belonged to the “Gharanne” of hoi-polloi parents who are not intellectually advanced nor educationally good.  Those children coming from the hoi-polloi domestic parents, what good they will normally acquire even though there are very many cases where children of such “Gharanne” and Parentage acquired much higher laurels because of their good character.

Then there are many oldies there in the Congress party who are so dead physically and mentally yet they are still aspiring to become the CM once again when their one leg is already in the grave.  The craze of Prataphsing Rauzi Rane to become the CM of Goa again is so strong that he as per one source, even refused his son’s coaxing him to join the BJP.  Many times luck favours him as it happened when he became the CM of Goa for the first time by bypassing Dr. Wilfred D’Souza who otherwise deserved to be the CM of Goa but Narshinva Naik (Babu) being anti-Christian suddenly proposed the name of Rane who was anti-Goan, anti-Konkani, anti-Christian and anti-everything that is pro-Goa and pro-Goans.   Goa and Goans suffered more during his CMinistership.  People must campaign hard to deny him any portfolio if Congress forms the next ministry. Physically he looks to be in Congress but soully he is with his son in BJP for this reason he keeps his silence over all the ills bjp creates in Goa.

Then there is Ravi Naik whose son has brought such a disgrace on him that he even not feeling shy to own him as his son.  If he was Mahatma Gandhi, he would disown Roy instructing the authorities concerned to deal with him as per the law.  I cannot understand why Ravi Naik is so ambitious to become the CM again when he lost his capacity to do any constructive work. His silence over the nonsense BJP is creating in Goa is very disturbing.

Then comes our Luizinho Faleiro who is only praising Sonia Gandhi calling her Madam Sonia Gandhi told me this and that. What is that Sonia Gandhi?  What extraordinary she an Italian waitress in England is capable of doing?  Just because she got married to Rajiv Ghandi she came into limelight otherwise she is a just house wife good for taking care of their children and daily chores in the house.   She is not meant to rule the country but the shameless Indians without who are good to give hero worship to the white skinners and with the blind allegiance to the Nehru Family raised her to the pedestal. It is intriguing that he and Digamar Kamat another aspirant of CM’s Chair are not raising their voices against the mess BJP is making in Goa.

These unfit oldies from Congress Party could be told clearly and loudly that they are a big liability on the party because of their greed for the Chief Minister’s “Kodel”. They must now only decide whom they will prefer to be their CM but one thing they must know that we will not accept from their mouth the statement that “we have put this matter into the hands of High Command in Delhi”.  Just as we are responsible to elect them so also these elected representatives should be made responsible to select their leader and not those pigheaded Delhi Babus who know nothing of Goa. The Congress Party must shed its wings of feudal lords. The Congressmen loves to act as feudal lords which they imitated from British Monarchy and because of this they want to be as Monarchs in India. The British at the time of handing over the political power into their hands headed by their Indian King/Monarch Jawarhalal Nehru thought that Congressmen will be suitable to keep the image of British Monarchy going in India because these Congressmen love to act as Monarchs as long as they hold power in India.

Secondly, Congress lost many of its sure seats in the last election only because of the tickets given to the earlier defeated candidates most of them were corrupt, acquirers of disproportionate wealth thru illicit means, arrogant and proud as I have one below my nose having all the bad attributes and who love to act as Czar.  Most of the Congress personnel sitting in their headquarters in Delhi and Panjim are unaware of the realities that we grassroots level supporters of Congress are aware. In fact people in their constituencies hate these types of candidates and as such in the coming election they should be told  to stay out.  Otherwise, all the supporters of Congress must oppose the candidates imposed on the voters by their headquarters.

It is time now for all the Congress supporters and workers to be assertive of their rights to put the house of Congress into order by taking law into their own hands while dealing with the Congressmen. The Congressmen will have to do what we want them to do, they cannot treat us as “GHANTTA BOIL”.  

A.Veronica Fernandes.

THE LATE YOUNG CHICO.

It was a shocking news today of the sudden and unexpected death of my friend and a great lover of Goa, Goan culture and Goan tradition, the late Tiaatrist Young Chico. He shot into limelight somewhere in mid sixties by participating in the local Tiatros staged by the amateur Tiatrist Directors mostly in Bardez. When he started his singing prowess he emitted the similarities of Alfred Rose in many respects. His voice was really very tasty and charming especially in the romantic songs, one of the songs was “Milena – Milena” & “Nouro” and “Jivi Santin” was a highly philosophical referring to Mother Theresa. Even behind the curtain before taking his entry to sing his song he was imitating Alfred Rose and on the Stage his pose, his dress code, his style of singing especially swinging his knees and his charismatic smile used to mesmerize the audience. Even the legendary melody king Alfred Rose praised him in one of his songs by saying “a man with the golden voice”. Just as in the professional segment without Mr. Boyer’s participation there was no crowd similarly in the amateur segment without Young Chico’s participation during his hey days mainly in the Brdez side crowd would not fill the Hall or Mattou.   He was in one word the real Darling of the Tiatro goers. Later on when he dipped himself with the professionals, he teamed up with another great and melodious singer F.X. Pereira from Cortalim and started singing beautiful Duos.

About 15 years back, we took him to Kuwait to participate in our Show there in Kuwait where he gained a lot of goodwill and also name and fame especially from the audience who saw him after a long gap and who were eagerly waiting to see their hero. During that period he stayed at my place in Kuwait City where  I had an opportunity to know him not only as a thorough Tiatrist but also a thorough human being with simplicity attached even to his soul.  He loved Goa so much that he would discuss with me many topics concerning Goa and Goan politics.  So much so, when he was engrossed in this type of talk, he even used to forget his food. Very rare you can see such Tiatrists among us whose patriotism towards Goa was high.

I have no words to describe my regret and sorrows over his sudden demise. Surely in his death one more strong pillar of Konkani Stage has been collapsed and from the current available ones I don’t think there is anyone who can fill the void created by his death. It is a pity that day by day we lose great Tiatrists and worst still they are not replaced thus stripping Konkani Stage of its best members.

May his soul rest in peace and may the heavenly God give courage to his children and other family members to bear this colossal loss.   

A.Veronica Fernandes.