The Zilla Parishad Election will be held shortly in Goa and every candidate is working very hard at least in my Constituency, to win this Seat. Almost every candidate tells that his first priority once he gets elected, will be to put pressure on the government and the MLA’s to devolve the ZP powers back to ZP, currently and since long time now these powers of ZP are held by the government and MLA’s. in fact thru these powers retaining in their hands the MLA’s especially the ruling party are acting like owners of ZP and if these powers are passed on to the ZP the dadagiri of MLA’s who are playing their dirty games of harassing the public and demanding hefty bribes for the government work which cost nothing, will come to an end. Knowing they will be non entities in front of the public in the absence of these powers in their hands, they will never pass on their powers to the ZP. This is the whole cunning trick on the part of the government and MLA’s not to delegate the powers so far held by them and the same meant for ZP, to ZP. By keeping these powers into their hands the ruling government and the MLA’s are committing a “Chori” on ZP because it looks like a pure robbery of the powers of ZP.
It was surprising how for so many years this robbery was allowed and none of the governments had guts nor hearts to give to ZP what belongs to ZP. I don’t know what will be the role of BJP candidate in this matter but one thing is certain I have no trust in this BJP government nor in its MLA’s because during the last so many years of ruling Goa none of the BJP members made any serious attempt to devolve the ZP powers rightly back to ZP. Even if they declare their intention with bold capital letters now to fight for transferring these powers to ZP, I will never believe them because they are not believeable, the premier of India Modi who is the BJP party member himself is a liar who lied us Goans when he promised us for our Goa "Special Status" category in return for our intention to get BJP members elected. We as true Goans fulfilled our intention but did Modi fuliflled his promise given to us while addressing the mammoth election meeting at Merces roundabout a few years back? Can anyone accept such a goof from the highest authority of this country? If the Prtemier of India cannot fulfill his promise then what about the others? Such nonsense and lies were not taking place in my beloved Goa during the colonial rule, those Portuguese had character and dignity, even the worst dictator Salazar had respect for the promise and the Governador of Goa Vassalo e Silva always fulfilled his promise. It is here that lies the greatness and beauty of Portuguese though they may be bad elsewhere. For this reason I salute them. we must thank Portugal and te Catolicism to create in our bodies and blood an extraordinary Goenkar in character - discipline - faithfulness, sincerity and many other best of virtues of which type are absent in the Ghanttis and other migrants however some of them rich may be. Our Goan Hindu and Goan Muslim is totlly dfferent from other Hindus and Muslims from other parts of India. Goan Hindus and Goan Muslims are beneficiary of the Portuguese and Catholic influence and precisely because of this there is very good fusion among Goan Christians, Goan Hindus and Goan Muslims.
It was only after the invasion of Goa by the dirty Indian politicians under the most dirtiest Premier of India Pandit Jawaharhal Nehru who had no business to interfere in Goa that the unwanted, uncultured Indians started pouring into my great Goa and these Indias along with them brought in their dirty, rough and agressive cultural and tradition habits and implanted them in Goa. If you watch minutrly the behavior of migrants who are coming to Goa like slaves, within short time they want to become master in Goa. If we do not do something for this now onoy then they will do everything within their power to degoanise us and convert us into their slaves just as the Jews from Israel coming from outside Jerusalem came, settled there and made the Palestinian Arabs as their slave even though the Israeli Jews came from abroad while the Jerusalem belomnged to the Arabs Muslimms andn Jews. These bhaile will not even allow us to perform our religious duties I am sure the "bhaile" will do the same thing for us because they have an added support for them from our MLA's, Ministers and government.
It was only after the invasion of Goa by the dirty Indian politicians under the most dirtiest Premier of India Pandit Jawaharhal Nehru who had no business to interfere in Goa that the unwanted, uncultured Indians started pouring into my great Goa and these Indias along with them brought in their dirty, rough and agressive cultural and tradition habits and implanted them in Goa. If you watch minutrly the behavior of migrants who are coming to Goa like slaves, within short time they want to become master in Goa. If we do not do something for this now onoy then they will do everything within their power to degoanise us and convert us into their slaves just as the Jews from Israel coming from outside Jerusalem came, settled there and made the Palestinian Arabs as their slave even though the Israeli Jews came from abroad while the Jerusalem belomnged to the Arabs Muslimms andn Jews. These bhaile will not even allow us to perform our religious duties I am sure the "bhaile" will do the same thing for us because they have an added support for them from our MLA's, Ministers and government.
It is now the ball is in the court of public to impress upon the candidates and their partymen to work for giving to ZP what belongs to ZP and to question BJP their real intention on this subject. They are ruling Goa now, ask them when they come for begging your votes, what role their earlier MLA/ZP members did in this regards, ask Michael Lobo who is the minister now what is his intention on this subject, he should tell us openly what role he -played in this regard, do not listen to their sermao put preach them your sermao otherwise tell them to get out from your door. This is the most important subject of the ZP candidate otherwise it is useless in electing him without power.
A.Veronica Fernandes.