This is regarding the movement spearheaded by the “Goencho Ekvott” to scrap the double trackingof railway line and also totally rejecting the transportation of Coal thru the State of Goa. Since this movement is initiated in the South and Mormugao and now gaining a momentum in Ponda too, I hope its echo will be heard in the North Goa and Barez too where many are still keeping their silence by saying “Maka Kiteak Poddlam?” It is not right on the part of those people who disown their duty and responsibility to support their own people on the other side of Goa. In fact, this problem is not of Mormugao, Salcete and Ponda only but of entire Goa and since the affected areas are also the parts of Goa, the entire Goan community becomes duty bound to side with our brothers and sisters from the affected parts of Goa. Those who say “Makam Kiteak Pooddlam” are cowards and anti-oans too and as such they are not fit to be in our midst and they have no right to call theselves as Goans. They must be genuine Ghanttees or of their type who have no responsibility to take on their shoulders because even if they get all the documents including the Ration Cards and Voting Cards to get the benefits of Goa and Goans, if anything goes wrong to them, yhey will run to their original homes in their respective States even if they have to go on their knees or crowling. We have seen recently how migrants have walked to their home States when there was no conveyance for them to go home. This is their patriotism towards their homes and their home places.
According to the available information, out of 40 ML’s only three are come out with their open support to this public cause and one of them is belonging to the Congress Party Reginaldo Lawrence. Why only 3 MLA’s declared their open support to this movement in favor of Goa and Goans? Why not other MLA’s? Are they hiding under the petticoats of their Concubnes or their wives? Don’t they have brains to think what is good and what is bad for Goa’s health and as such why they shrugged of their responsibility? Here comes the principle of “collective Ressponsibility” of Goans and as such neither they nor anybody in Goa can refrain from supporting this movement if he calls himself/herself a real Goan. It is time now for all of us to indicate our solidarity with our people who are fighting this menace which the Goa Government wants to impose in Goa in a dictatorial manner to help a few millionaires to become billionaires and in the bargain to create Crorepotis of those who are running the Government machinery because according to the ongoing trend the Ministers will be surely entitled for their bribe if this double railway track is laid. The damage of this double railway track will be immense for Goa and those people who are going to be directly affected, the Government is not thinking in these terms, those Ministers who are running the Government says “amchea mar konkear” let the grievances of the people go to hell, as long as we receive our bribe it is enough for us. This type of dadagiri was not existing even during the Salararist regime, inspite of being a dictator Salazar was far better but deffinetely not these Goan Salazars who are always acting against the interest of the local people in the name of development. Destroying the well-being of the people in the name of development is not the correct method to develop Goa and what these Ministers of ours whose knowledge of the subjects they are dealing and handling are capable to perform? By mishandling the Corona Virus when they kept the door of Goa open for anybody to enter Goa and spread and multiply the Virus, they have sucked Goa. What is the capacity of Health Minister to perform well when he does not know how to give an injection? These Ministers of Ladru and Pedru type will never do justice to their jobs because they are unfit to occupy the positions that they are wrongly occupying because their leader is stupid to give right portolio to the wrong person. People must now only raise their voices against the kiddiness our ministers are doing otherwise they will send us to the grave. They have money to get best of treatment from best of the private hospitals but do we have that power? This Government is not people friendly but anti-people. Goans must think over it carefully before the next election comes. Meantime, we must all join together to fight against the injustice meted out to us.
When Prophet Mohammad was asked “when there will be justice in this world, replied the Prophet within a split of a second saying “when everyone of us will gather courage to fight against the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice is committed on to us only, then only there will be justice in this world’. We cannot keep ourselves as silent spectators when our fellow Goans are suffering from injustice from the Government that always works against the interest of the people thereby forcing the people to come out on to the streets in demonstrations. This Government never gave us peaceful nights to sleep peacefully and neither will give us in the future. In view of this, we must make our preparations now only to dethrone Sawant and his Government otherwise this Government will dethrone us from our Houses by demolishing our Houses in the name of development.
A.Veronica Fernandes.