In the political field of India, some of the political figures suffered only because of their nasty children who behaved badly in society thereby giving a solid blow on the political career of their parents holding ministerial positions. These children act so badly that even the law enforcing officials are afraid of them because they are the children of powerful politicians. There is a saying in Konkani “Raza Podon mhontlear Mort marlear zata”? Just because your Godfather is King, you cannot commit a murder with the expectation that your King godfather will come to your rescue to release you from the jaws of the law and law enforcing agencies including the judiciary.
In India we have innumerable instances where the children of Ministers and other politicians are indulging in irresponsible acts which create a very bad image of their minister parents who unfortunately support the irresponsible acts of their children mainly their rascal sons and sometimes the Minister fathers of their rowdy sons had to surrender their power and position because of their naughty sons. The worst incident I can quote here is of the most ruthless and the most corrupt and rowdy younger son of our late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, whose name was Sanjay Gandhi and who was the real architect of the Emergency in India in 1975. In fact he forced his mother to introduce Emergency in India to hold on to power when Allahabad High Court disqualified her from her election which the said Court under the Chief Justice, Justice Sinha proved that Indira Ghandi declared winner in her election at that time by using fraudulent means. During that time Sanjay Gandhi was behaving like Hitler and his mother was terribly afraid of him. Kuldeep Nayar in his masterpiece “The Judgement” said that Sanjay Gandhi even slapped her when she was refusing to listen to him. In fact because of such Sanjay Gandhis innocent people suffered.
In Goa we too have some nasty sons of top politicians and they perform many illicit acts, the mystery of the death of Scarlet in Anjuna is not properly solved because different stories are spread from different people giving an impression that “Raza podon mhonn filhadan mort marli ani razan ti paloili?” We have so many young sons of so many of our politicians and all these kid sons are acting so violent that they think this land belongs to their fathers only and hence they can perform any violent act because they know their fathers will get them all the facilities to avoid getting caught. These bloody stupid fathers were so irresponsible that they are not meant to hold any public office even as scavengrs, so low they are. In this contest let me quote Mahatma Gandhi who told the low enforcing authority when one of his sons Hiralal was caught by the Police for his rash behaviour, to enforce the law and Gandiji refused to intervene in support of his son but on the contrary he told all the concerned authorities and personnel "I disown my son and let the law take its own course". Is there anyone among us who is capable to emulate Gandhiji’s example? Gahndiji did this decision because he was the real son of his real father.
Prataphsing Rane and Ravi Naik are both Congressmen but only the artificial ones and not the genuine Congressmen, Rane’s son after flirting with Congress he joined BJP. Does it look appropriate for the son to be in one party and father in another party opposing each other? Legally it is not wrong to be in two different parties but at home they are one and outside in politics they are as enemies? This is the same story with Ravi Naik and both his sons who according to today’s date 06.08.20 news they both jumped from Congress into BJP. I am certain that those sons of the senior politician MLAs of Congress as I heard from the different sources are having tremendous power over their fathers and as such their fathers have no control over their sons. If this is the case then these political novices who are acting like “Kalche Poirche Potte” would even demand the secrets of some crucial confidential issues discussed in the Congress Party confidential meetings and I am sure the senior Congressmen to please their sons they will divulge all the secrets and confidential decisions of Congress Party. In view of this, can anyone trust the senior artificial Congressmen like Prataphsingh Raoji Rane and Ravi Naik to maintain the secrecy of Congress Party? What surprises me is the manner that both Ravi Naik and Sr. Rane not even feeling apologetic of the action of their sons and instead shamelessly they applaud their sons as if they brought laurels for them. Here let me quote one more incident how Dr. Jack Sequeira when his son Erasmus Sequeira as an elected member of Parliament (Lokh Sabah) from UG Party without consulting Party defected to BLD (confidentially he must have consulted his father and his father Dr. Jack Sequeira must have given his silent nod to his son who had it seems upper hand over his father. But later on Dr. Sequiera commented on his sons illegal action saying, “he is gone from UG with our blessings” instead of condemning his son for defecting to BLD of Charan Singh.
It is now time for the Congress Party to throw Sr. Rane and Ravi Naik out of Congress Party before they damage their Party’s fabrics. The Congressmen and supporters of Congress Party must make concerted efforts to bring pressure on the Congress Party to initiate proceedings against both Ravi and Rane. In fact they too would be otherwise first to jump into BJP from Congress but so far they have not done this and that they have not done this, it is only because they have no scope in the BJP. They must have tought “it is better to be masters in Hell than the Slaves in Heaven”
A.Veronica Fernandes.