“Salcete didn’t vote for BJP, but my Govt won’t neglect it: Parrikar”, said Parricar recently as per the media reports. Fine, it is not a big thing if Salcette was neglected as a punishment by the government of the ruling party BJP just as MGP did under Dayananda Bandodcar when MGP won the elections in Goa. Being a half ”Botto”, Bandodcar can speak such a language but surely not Parricar. By talking thus, Parricar is trying foolishly to gain cheap sympathy from the public mainly from the Salcette as if he is doing a favour on Salcette. He should know that his government is elected to serve entire Goa and not minus Salcette. This that “Botto” did not realized earlier.
First of all it is not correct on any ruling party government to neglect the segment of people that did not vote for the ruling party government. Once any party forms the government, the same government becomes duty bound to cater to the needs of the entire area of the territory or state or the country. What Parricar is talking is all bullshit. As an educated man such thoughts should not come into his mind.
Till his death, Bandodcar took his revenge on Salcette for not voting for MGP, by ignoring its development. He concentrated his whole attention on North Goa by doing lot of developments in this segment, even the roads in this area were far better than those in the Salcette. His daughter after his death carried forward the same revengeful policy against Salcette till she was kicked out of power by her own partymen like Dayananda Narvenkar, Dilkush Desai and others. When anybody acts too much with anger and revenge against others, he/she ultimately collapses beyond recovery because this is the natural law.
Bandodcar was acting too harsh against Salcette because it was dominated by Christians and since he was having revenge against Christians, he with the political power backing him, was working against the interest of the entire Christan community in Goa, at least clandestinely. The MGP itself is ANTI-CHRISTIAN. The same tirade against the Christians was carried forward by Shashikala Kakodcar. And what punishment they got? One i.e Bandodcar died while playing Table Tennis in Panjim and his daughter Shashikala was miserably failed to acquire the power again. With these two major setback, the family raj of Bandodcar was disappeared from this planet., What a great fall was that ! With that fall a curse on Goa disappeared.
A.Veronica Fernandes.