The first political defection in Goa from one party to another was initiated by 5 UG MLA’s somewhere in late Sixties when they joined Bandodcar’s MGP, one of them was Valente Sequeira my “ghanv bhav” from Calangute constituency. Immediately after their defection, Dr. Jack Sequeira, as Opposition Leader, called public meetings in all the constituencies of all the 5 defectors, in Calangute it was held at foot-ball ground.
And thus spoke Dr. Sequeira in Konkani:
“Tumi meetingek aileat hanga, tor atam vochat Candolim Valentichea ghora ani font marun tachem dhar moddat, bitor vochon tachea bokddechea khaddak dhorun taka bhair haddat ani tachi tuminch nit korat kiteak tanne tumkam fottoilet visvas ghat korun tumcheam motancher. To zaun assa ek Judas ghatki zanne Jesuk ghat kelolo.”
Earlier one more speaker very piercingly spoke saying “only the illegitimate persons who know their mothers only but not their fathers, commit such betrayals. And you know who are the persons who does not know their fathers". We know what we call these illegitimate persons.
My advice to all the constituents of all the three elected representatives of GFP to organize some sort of movements of resistance in front of their residences to shame them and to follow them with black flags wherever they go. To do this you need not be in big number, even a few dedicated persons will do. These defectors must not be given peaceful sleep because they have spoiled the peaceful sleep of entire Goa.
I cannot imagine how the 2 “Kalche Porche Potte” as MLA’s, namely Jayees from Saligao and Palyekar from Siolim gathered courage to defect to BJP so early when they first should fortify their base in their constituencies! Jayees Salgaocar when I attended his public meeting in Saligao just before the election, he so openly and so loudly declared saying “I will never join BJP”. Now, this act of his is worse than that of St. Peter when he denied Jesus Christ while he earlier embraced Jesus. What type of human beings are these three GFP MLA's? How they three of them dared to undo the mandate given to them by the thousands of voters? Don’t they come from proper parentage? Don’t they have proper family background and proper family character? They acted, by joining the BJP, as coming from “Rostad family background”.
A person with good family background will never commit an act of betrayal. By committing an act of betrayal they have brought disgrace not only on them but also on their families, class, caste and everything related to them. Do their religion which they practice tell them to betray others? No religion tells you to commit betrayal but by committing the betrayal these traitors brought bad name to their otherwise best religion.
The biggest mistake of all the three MLA’s of GFP was to join BJP when they came into existence under GFP only to defeat the BJP. Voters elected them to unseat BJP whom these voters did not want to be in power. They may give any number of reasons to justify their wrong act but they have no justification because they have no right to join any other party leave aside BJP. If they were the real sons of their real fathers then they would not join any party but instead would occupy the Seats in the Assembly separately under GFP. People gave them the mandate not to join BJP and by joining BJP they are all three of them are dubbed as ‘TRAITORS”. They have enriched the pages of history book with one more chapter called “The Greatest Betrayal” which will remain recorded in the history books while the benefits they got from this betrayal will surely one day come to an end but never the records of history books.
A.Veronica Fernandes.