Where are we heading? To the right direction or somewhere in the Jungle? A few days back a Press Conference in Melaulim, Satari Taluka was stopped by the local Police citing different reasons that prohibit such activities. Elsewhere so many meetings were held but Police never stopped them. Why this step motherly treatment to Melaulim Meet only? This action gives an indication that hard days are about to descend on us not only in Goa but all over India because BJP has already bared its intention to wield control over every move of every Indian citizen. By using the excuse of section 144, looters are on loot spree all over Goa, this looks like what it is said in one of our Konkani proverbs which says ‘DEV PODDLA BOBALLAR ANI HOCH VELL BORO IGROZ NAGOUPAK. This is what exactly it is happening in Goa now where the Government and its machinery are become like Kindergarten Teachers with the Sticks in their hands and pushing their control over every student who is incapable to defend him/her from the corporal punishment by the stupid KG Teachers in the name of guiding them in the right direction to groom them as good citizen. It is all rubbish, nobody In India is having his mission to create Indians as good citizens. If it is so, India would not be producing armies and battalions of corrupt citizens originating from our Homes and Schoola and Colleges. Even our “Dev Mandirs” are become like the factories of producing in mass scale the corrupt “Dev Bokts” and their followers.
Seeing all these rubbish situation prevailing now all over Goa and India too, I feel like putting a poser to all the concerned people as “What type of people we elected to rule Goa?” Are our elected representatives capable to defend and protect democratic system sincerely or will they act as Ladru Pedru type of MLA’s and Ministers where they will do nothing except work ferociously for accumulating THE WEALTH not only for them and for their children and grand children but even their generations to come. See our every MLA and Minister having his asset in crores of rupees, from where he got so much of financial power to accumulate such vast fincial empires? And on top of it they are not even ashamed of being exposed of their dirty methods they used to acquire their illicit wealth, they are elected to our Legislative Assemblies and Panchayats and Parliament not to fill their pockets but to help their voters and other citizens to develop their economies. But instead of developing the economies of their constituents they are developing their own economies by robbing the people by means of denying them of the quota of their progress which their representative Is using for his own benefit. In this way these elected representatives are become crorepotis by utilizing every opportunity that they get for the benefit of their constituents ultimately the same for their own benefit sometimes what is surplus as residual part they share it with their Chamchas and some members of their inner circle. Otherwise, can you point finger for any beneficial work done by your MLA/Minister for the benefit of any of your constutients?
Coming back to the Stopping of the Press Conference by the Police force of the BJP government, can my own MLA who is otherwise too much talkative on any and very topic as if he is an omnipotent and even harping on democratic values, can he tell what has happened at Melaulim was right? Does he accept the action that his government has taken in suppressing the voice of the people? Don’t we have freedom to express our views where we feel injustice has been done to us? Or he like Salazarism back in Goa? Those people in the ruling government who are doing nothing to protect the people’s rights are enemies of the people? It is 3 years past that our MLA came to our places in my area to beg for our votes but since then there is no sign of his, he must stop thinking that people are fools, now in the Corona Virus plague he should have enquired what is the state of affairs of the same people whom he approached exactly on the eve of the last election and now he will come back again exactly on the eve of the coming election. My friend, you have bared your actual nature of the proverb “Kam zalem Voiz Melo”. Don’t think migrants alone will elect you, you are likely to face your Waterloo in the coming election if you think so though I don’t want this calamity to fall on you because you are otherwise a nice man having sympathetic heart to understand the difficulties of the proletarians like me since you come from the same segment of the people.
It looks the second Emergency is coming fast after the June 1975 first emergency was introduced by that Monster Indira Gandhi who trampled under her feet the great democratic tradition of India, she lectured Indians on the greatness of democracy but became the first to destroy it only to protect her Prime Ministerial Chair and not for anything else. In the name of protecting the nation from the internal divisive elements who otherwise were the great patriots like Jayaprakash Narain, Morarjee Desai and others, she with the Midnight Knock at their Doors, got them arrested and used all the inhuman methods to harass them bodily and mentally. In one word the entire opposition nationwide was suppressed by keeping them under police/judicial lock-up and thus destroyed all the freedoms and democratic rights given to us by our Constitution. Similar days looming over our heads is become visible when some of our activists in Goa were arrested recently on silly complaints and when they were arrested none of the BJP members either from the Assembly or from outside raised his or her voice. Our MLA who is otherwise super vocal to raise his voice against the injustice was silent. Why is this duplicity of the type of Dr. Jackyl and Mr. Hyde? And with this type of duality you will never succeed my friend.
The second emergency if it comes (God forbid first of all) it will be the harshest one because those responsible to introduce it will be the most harsh people as seen from the hard heartedness they indicate now. Currently our rulers are showing scant respect for the democratic values of the people where as it looks, even your freedom to think freely will be curtailed leave aside freedom to express freely. The recent arrest of 2 or 3 activists for expressing their views freely was a dangerous beginning in the wrong direction where surprisingly our intelligentsia showed their total silence.
A.Veronica Fernandes.