With all my love and affection, I, on my behalf as well as on behalf of all the like minded “nizache Goenkar”, welcome the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza to Goa today for a two day State visit to Goa. During his two day visit to Goa he will sign an MoU on Water and Sewerage Management between Portugal and the Public Works Department, Goa. I am sure Goa will surely gain a lot in this joint venture where Portuguese know how is vastly superior because our so called experts are lacking in the proper expertise in many of the fields because they passed their exams in those subjects they are especialised with less marks as they are given preferential treatment being the members of Backward class/caste. These are the same Engineers and Geologists who planned the first Mandovi Bridge which within a few years collapsed. It was planned and approved by some of the experts who passed their final exam with less marks because they were given grace marks because they belonged to the Backward class/caste.
When the Portuguese government made its decision to build this Bridge during their last years in Goa, a team of top experts in Bridge building came to Goa from Portugal and first they discarded the very same spot the Indian donkeys selected and where they finally built the Bridge which ultimately collapsed within 15 years. The Portuguese Engineers told that the spot where the Indian Engineers built later on and the same known as Mandovi Bridge was collapsed, will not withstand the fury of lower current and finally what the Portuguese experts predicted and analysed correctly that only happened. Viva Portugal for their system and discipline.
I am sure even the Atomic device India manufactured must be having some defects because of weak and defective methods used by our scientists who are among the most corrupt experts becauae many of them must be coming from Backward class/caste who got their Engineering and professional degrees with grace marks for belonging to the lower caste/class. They don’t have patriotism and if they had they would not sell Atomic secrets some years back for a Whiskey Bottle and other such gifts.
My connection and affiliation to Portugal will never die down even though we were denied our freedom and independence by the Portuguese government for which I totally hold Portugal under Salazarist dictatorial regine responsible and not the visiting Portuguese President nor the current government in Portugal. All the governments that came to power after the end of Salazar and Zalazarist system were equally the victims of Salazarist brutalities, most of the members of these governments were also fighting to overthrow the Salazarists in Portugal because they were democrats and to introduce this system they were fighting against the dictatorial regime. If the Salazarists had to fall before 1961 instead of in 1974, I am sure without any hassle they would give not only the suppressed liberation for Goa as we have now but full fledged independence for Goa as they gave to Mocambique, Angola and other Portuguese colonies where many of our Freedom Fighters would be holding the top positions as Premier – President and so on. But with the so called fake liberation they had to eat “kuslelim ghottam”.
I am also grateful to Portugal for giving us some identity as Goans, good governance system and good discipline physical and moral. They did not develop us unwanted Ghantees.
Many of the Goan freedom fighters in the past during the visits of Portuguese government emissaries to Goa indicated their dislike for these visits of Portuguese VIP’s but they failed to accept the hard fact that all those visitors from Portugal have also suffered brutalities of Salazar because they were also fighting for the liberation of Portugaal from the clutches of Salazar. After the fall of Salazarist regime, the first anti-Salazar personality to visit Goa was the last Governador of Goa Vassalo e Silva. The greatest friend, lover and saviour of Goa and Goans was he and precisely because of his love and deep affection for Goa and Goans he refused to implement the plan Salazar gave him to destroy Goa, burn it and turn into ashes. But he refused this brute order of Salazar and because of this refusal he was punished severely by Salazar after he returned from invaded Goa to Portugal. I think it is his monument Goans must have built after the invasion of Goa. Do we have marbles to do this even now?
The current President is the product of democratic mind set of Portugal and his love and affection for Goans as per my information is great indeed. It is time for all Goans to welcome the Portugal 's President with open arms by saying VIVA PORTUGAL – VIVA PRESIDENT MARCELO REBELO DE SOUZA and VIVA GOA-PORTUGAL FRIENDSHIP.
A.Veronica Fernandes.