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Where are we Indians heading now from the chaotic situation that is prevailing in India not excluding our so called “Bhangarachem Goem”?” I feel a huge Iceberg in front of me creating an obstacle for my ship to move ahead. This Iceberg is so huge that even it surpasses the earlier worst Iceberg that destroyed the most powerful Passenger Ship “The Titanic” that World has ever built, preventing me from expressing my opinion freely on the wrong doings of certain higher-ups who are provided with all the doles by the ruling party Government. The democratic process that we are exercising now is totally collapsed and instead it looks to me we are under the dictatorial regime. See the way our Ministers, MLA’s and even the ordinary “Chamchas” of the ruling party are acting!! They can do anything and any harm to their opponents because the law enforcers and justice deliverers are in their pockets and because they consider themselves as “de jure” masters of law enforcers and justice deliverers and precisely because of this there are cases still remained undetected inspite of having all the evidences to catch the culprits including the murderers of Fr. Bismarque that remained till now thoroughly un-investigated since those who are a party to this murder of course thru remote control are having their own interest in the liquidation of Fr. Bismarque. If you carefully analyse the whole situation you are unable to live peacefully and freely in Goa without inviting you the unnecessary problems. This is worse than the Salazarist dictatorship because under this dictatorship at least the ordinary individual was provided by the State full corporal protection. But after the ouster of Portuguese from Goa, even that life protection is not existing because power is gone into the hands of “Rostad” politicians whose only motto is to fatten their Bank balance even by keeping their the next 5 generations financially secured.
The democratic process we are exercising now in Goa as elsewhere too, is a big joke, it is controlled directly by the concerned dictatorial authorities otherwise how the clear majority of Seats winning Congress Party was denied on flimsy grounds an opportunity to form their own government and instead the current ruling party handed on silver platter privilege to form the current government? This is purely a robbery done by the ruling party in connivance with the Delhi “Babus” who as informed, pressurised Goa’s Governor exactly in a Salazarian style as he used to instruct the Goa Governador from Portugal. Both the cases are identical, one done by the dictator Salazar from Portugal directing the Goa Governador what to do in Goa and the other from Delhi to Goa Governor to help BJP to form the Goa government. By doing this we the Congress workers in Goa who voted Congress Party to the clear majority were not only robbed of our right to see Congress Party forming the Government but we were backstabbed in a form of a crime. Who on earth will believe such Governadors?
Can in this scenario we have a democratic process In our Goa? 60 Years back in this very month our elders were taking the procession on our Roads in Candolim and shouting slogans joyfully in praise of the victory for Democracy while elsewhere in my village at the Tinto some prominent Goans especially the Freedom Fighters praising India for inducting Democracy in Goa. But did they ever realised that under the same Indian Government that introduced Democracy in Goa is responsible to tarnish the image of the same Democracy and by chance or miracle If they come back from their graves, they will repent and regret for facing innumerable hardships including the torturing from the hands of that deadly Portuguese Agente Monteiro to get this Democracy in Goa.
Is there any hope for our current and the next generations to live a peaceful and developed life? I doubt because under the current de facto dictatorial system in the name of democratic process they will face more Icebergs in front of them destroying their Titanics. When they are on the verge of embarking on their future, it looks to me Goa will be just a land inhabited by all the people from all over world and not necessarily from India only but without Goans. This will happen because our top leaders in Delhi and other suboridates from Goa or based in Goa will be working tremendously very hard liquidating and uprooting Goans fron their own anchestral Goa. I hope I don’t live in this world to see that calamity of seeing Goa without Goans. I dont think I will be able to see that stuation "Goa minus Goans".
A.Veronica Fernandes.