Many of our elders having great love for Goa and Goans have gone from this planet not only complaining against the dirty politics but also against the corrupt administration given to Goa by our politicians and administration following the invasion of Goa. These worst aspects of Goa was the result of the forcible annexation of Goa by the “fotting” Nehru’s Bharat because of which the worst type of administration by the worst type of Bharati administrators was imposed on Goa. Our elders did not want outsider Portuguese domination over us but neither they wanted the domination of Bharati outsiders over us. Bharati rule over Goa is as external as it was of Portugal. Both the rulers over us were outsiders. In fact our elders hated both the external powers. Many of our elders gone to their graves grieving when they found that under Bharat, Goans will have to live like slaves. And what we see now? Are we masters of our Goa? During Portugese rule the planning for Goa was done in Lisbon and now after the invasion of Goa the same type of planning for Goa was done in New Delhi. In both the places no Goans were involved. Are we Goans not treated like slaves?
BJP was already given a jolt in Karnataka though inspite of having majority in Goa in the last election, Congress was given a jolt by BJP (Aiz makam faleam tukam. Korta tea mapan bhogta). Our own MLA’s after getting elected are fooling us by taking law into their own hands. Once they are elected they think they are “the monarchs of what they survey” and hence they do what they feel the best for their own good by neglecting the good of their voters and voters’s wishes. How to avoid this trend in future? It is very difficult in the absence of “Recall” system but political scientists and experts in this field must devise some methods to prevent the elected representatives from changing his party without the consent of the voters? Can we take an affidavit or any such legal guarantee from our representatives that they will not change their parties once they are elected? Is there any legal method? We can also make them wear upon their Holy Books public that they will not cross their border once elected?
Now it is time for Congress Party in Goa to put its own house into order by preparing the selection of their candidates without imposition their own chamchas. In this selection, Congress Party must forget of its High Command based in Delhi, we are the high command in Goa and as such we should be taken into confidence while selecting the next candidates. It is we the voters who will decide the candidates for us and not high command based in Delhi that consisted of idiots as far as Goa is concerned. It is like decision taking in Lisbon. In this case where is the freedom and liberation for Goa? Is this the way Congress has liberated Goa from the Portuguese? This is another invasion of the type Afonso de Alburquerqe done. We don’t want this type of liberation.
In my constituency our representative should be selected with our consent and we will not accept anyone imposed on us either from Delhi high command or by Goa high command. The voters are the supreme to decide who is the best candidate for them.
A.Vernica Fernandes.aa