ELECTIOIN FEVER IS SUBSIDED. - PART I.

 Finally the voting for the Election of 2022 for the Goa Legislative Assembly was over with the participation of 11.64 lakhs electorates plus 301 candidates from 12 political parties with the Independentes as well.  13 Candidates from one single Constituency i.e. Siolim is the highest number of candidates in one single constituency.

The first election for the Goa Legislative Assembly was held in 1963 when the electorates were not matured compared to the present ones. In fact the first election in Goa was held immediately after the conquest of Goa by the Nehru’s government in Delhi and it was for Village Panchayats all over Goa.  This was the first election in Goa but history tells us that Goa organiised elections much earlier for the Municipalities and to the Portuguese Parliament where Goa used to send two of Goa’s representatives,  one from the North and the other  from the South.  For Indian Ghantees elections may be some NOVIDADE but surely not for Goans. Inspite of this Goans goofed somewhere during the election process. In the first election for the Goa Les. Assembly,  the two major political parties were United Goans headed by Dr. Jack de Sequeira  and the other Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party whose symbol was Lion while that of UG Hand  and that of Congress of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was Cow. Even though the Congress Party was enjoying  enormous amount of goodwill and strong support almost from all over India but in Goa it received a strong defeat winning not a single seat in Goa.  One of the reasons according to our elders for this defeat was the anger of senior Goans against the forcible annexation of Goa by  India by using the mighty Military Force against Goa without taking major portion of Goans into confidence.  No doubt the overwhelming number of Goans were wanting the Portuguese to leave Goa peacefully  and voluntarily handing Goa into the hands of Goans but not the way it was invaded in the name of liberation  thereby Goans are made strangers in their own land where they are losing all their Goan attributes and characteristics. This negative feeling of Goans against Congress Party  of Nehru  provoked huge number of Goans to vote against Congress. 

Since the fight was between the UGP and the  MGP that was the worst hard core Hindu fanatic  party which  was the   strong anti-Christian because they were zealous of all round development and the progress made by the Christians.  But in reality Goan Christian were fit for nothing exceptional except for Beber – Cumer & Fuder, as it was taught to us by the Portuguese, hence it was wrong to say that Christians in Goa were advanced, they are not, the entire economy of Goa was into the hands of Hindus, they are more hard working; the major industry of GoA, MINING was in totality into the hands of Hindus, namely Chowgules, Salgaocars, Timble, Dempos ad others.  Where are the Fernanbdeses, D'Souzas and others gone?  The trade and commerce was into their hands only, most of the educated professionals in Goa are Hindus namely Doctors and Engineers.  Christians went to  the Gulf, Africa, Canada, USA, UK and Tarvar and minus the Gulf residents all others settled in those countries where they went.  The entire Gulfies and Tarvotti clan thru their fatty remittance they inflated the economy of Goa but like typical with  buttlers mentality  they did not build their small scale industries nor they invested their money in something productive neither they pressurized the local  Goa Government in helping them in that direction. With the strength of their moneey power they only constructed the big houses spending lakhs of rupees, purchased  Limousines which fall into dead investment. Then they purchased flats at Altinhos to create a posh image of themselves as residents of   high profile residential areas that  they would get as a big show which they wanted very much because  they lacked the sophisticated image that even denied to them the prominent places for them in the society.  This is due to the discriminatory attitude of our Goan society.

Now coming back to the jokes Goans made of themselves during the first eAssembly election let me cite one concrete example.  An elderly lady was told by her son this: “Mae tum bhitor voch ani thuimsor tukam te dakoitolet

Ek zago zuim tum eklich astoli thuimsor tum tujem mot gal HATAK mhonchem

Tum tuzo Xikko mar Hatacher”.  Ti babddi bhitor gheli ani aplo Xikko apleach haticher marlo and ballot paper bhitor ghatlem dhobean ani aili khoxen bhoron apnem applem vhodd kam kelem mhonn.  Pun maguir gomtoch tinem kitem kelem tem, putak ani herank sogleank ekdom loz zali.