Thank God finally thru His mercy alone our Seafarers stranded in the seas disembarked in Bombay and after the necessary period required in quarentine, they will be back soon in the arms of their loved ones and dearest and also with the nearest. Other than God, nobody should be given the credit for their safely disembarkation in Bombay, not even the CM Sawant nor his BJP and neither the Central government should take cheap credit for the success of Seafarers operation. If the BJP at Center and in Goa and Sawant ministry in Goa had genuine feelings and clear intention to help these Seafarers then they would all join together and put in their combined efforts to bring them back to Goa in the beginning itself but no, they wanted to ignore their issue may be because they are almost all Christians because Christians looked neglected by the governing governments. However, if this issue took a serious turn then it was only because of the nearest and dearest of Seafarers who made a big noise even by undertaking a hunger strike thereby shaking the credibility of the Sawant Government and backed by the total support of the Goans to fight for the cause of Seafarers instead of receiving the time consuming promises by Sawant. Seafarers association too played a good role in support of Seafarers demand.
Nobody among Seafarers not even their relatives should adore BJP and Sawant ministry and as a mark of gratitude they should not vote for the BJP but instead they should oppose the BJP for not rendering timely assistance to them. What BJP has done for these Seafarers was nothing but their duty and to do this type of duty they were elected by the people. However, BJP in keeping in tune with their rubbish discipline, robbed the Goans of their right to have the Congress government formed its ministry and instead inspite of being in minority seat tally in the last election formed their own government by committing a “Chori” on Congress. If BJP was a good party then they would never initiate the defection and allow the defected MLA’s into their side by form their government.
In my locality recently the main road was repaired, hot-mix tarred and it looks better now. But we should not think that the MLA concerned should be adored for doing this job, there is no favour in doing this job, it is only his duty the concerned MLA has done and nothing else. He is elected to be the MLA to do his duties which are nothing but his obligations and there is no favour in it.
BJP is claiming to be the service to the public oriented party and it is the only party in India that is having the mass base where the rulers of the government identifies themselves with the commoners. My foot, you “fotting” traitors of BJP. You are liars and crook because of this you don’t identify yourselves practically with the commoners. The difference between your living standard and that of the masses and commoners was too high and it cannot be like narrowed down because the top brass of BJP and any other party will not be comfortable to surrender even an inch in favour of the commoners.
The way the Ministers living in Goa for example at Altinho Panjim Government Bungalows it looks to me that one more class of people are developed In our midst that is the class of super Goans belonging to the ministerial category. They are so powerful that they can at any moment turn into Salazar. Because of the unimaginable facilities they are getting by being the ministers they turn out to be proud and arrogant. Can anyone living this standard if he wants to prove his simplicity of the common man that he was born and brought up, surrender his luxuries and live a common man’s life? Cant he live in his own house instead of living in Altinho and instead spend the tax payers money for any good cause? The standard of their living now is that of British Monarchy. Inspite of driving away the British we are still ADORING their living standard that means we must be real traitors. Such traitors will never think good of the common people and common people will never come up as they will remain there only to vote the traitors.
A.Veronica Fernandes.