One of the popular persons from Candolim Bardez Goa is Damiao Telles a firebrand from the Orda St.Sebastiao Vaddo. He creates havoc during the Gram Sabah Meets organized by Candolim Panchyat being very vocal in pointing out mistakes of the village rulers. Because of his being vocal there he bares the weakness of the Panchayat body which it looks like manned by some of the weak persons who are elected there by some of the double weak voters. This Panchayat in their mischievous doings detrimental to the betterment of the village and villagers is exposing its misdeeds because Candolim is now inhabited by some of the stupid people otherwise Candolim is known to produce great people, this village of mine known as Caandolim is known to give birth to the greatest man of his type of this planet named Abe Faria and the Pintos’ Revolutionaries who created the Pintos Revolt against the Portuguese rule in Goa about 300 years back. Because of his fighting for jusice in the village, some miscreants even put fire to his house incurring him into heavy losses. Since sometime now, he is running his shop at the Candolim Beach Park area, some people are accusing him of not taking active part in the local affairs by being a bit silent as some people in the locality feels that by giving him the said Shop local Panchayat kept his mouth shut. But, Damiao flatly refused this accusation. There is no favour in allotting this Shop to Damiao because it is rightly given to him because this Shop was reserved for the handicapped and since Damiao falls in this category he was given rightly to him, this is as per my information. Meantime, Damiao said he will go on doing the same type of campaign against injustice meted to our villagers `without any fear or softness. If still some people are having any question on his way of acting then they can meet him and know the truth further. A.Veronica Fernandes.
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