Today it is the voting day in Goa and thus it is a public holiday. The voting as per the schedule was started at 7.00 AM in my neighborhood and at 7.30 I went to vote in the Church School where everything was going smoothly and peacefully. The Police are found doing their job well so too the staff of the government who are pulled for this special job, there was no rudeness nor roughness either on their faces or in their dealings with the public as normally displayed by them. This is the first time I found Police force a bit civilized otherwise they think that they are coming from outside planet expecting super attention from the people. These are the Policemen who are coming from third grade family background who think they are too smart and too superior. These idiots Panpotti eaters acting like lions in the jungle during their employment in Police Department but once they are retired they act like cowards afraid to mix up with others because they are afraid that they may be assaulted by the civilians for their sins they committed during their hey days.
Then after sometime observing the trend of voting, I was deeply hurt to listen to the names of the voters such as Challappa, Allappa, Gonpilla, Sumitibai, etc. All these names are of the voters from outside Goa and since they are settled in Goa which they found as an Eldorado where they can mint money and enjoy certain status and dignity in their life which were denied to them in their home land, they are very happy in Goa. They already got the Voting Cards and since this is the case, they are also the masters of Goa and since they are also the masters of Goa by virtue of having Voting Cards, they will also decide the fate of Goa, they will decide what is good and what is bad for Goa. And in time to come their majority will be terrific in Goa where they will be uncontrollable and we would not be able to check them. What a tragedy till yesterday and the day before yesterday when they first time came to our neighbourhood without even an ordinary “Cheddi” and their females also without proper dresses these same persons are deciding our future. How tragic is it. They are having a very bad opinion of Goans and taking this view in mind they will decide the future of Goa and Goans.
Oh God, where are we heading now and what will be our destination? We remained fighting among us as Hindus and Christao but the “bhaile” gained the advantage. Hindus since 19.12.61 went on fighting to impose their dadagiri on Christao and trying to make them as unwanted in Goa while Christao remained opposing them with all their might, money and skill to protect Goa, its boundary, identity, culture, tradition, language, folklore and everything that is associated with Goa and Goans. The hoi-polloi category Hindus from Goa preferred Ghantti Hindus in Goa to Goan Christao. Now many of these Hindus are feeling the ill effects of these Bhaile but they on their own will never be able to do anything in this context but will these low grade Hindus who from 1961 displaying their anger on Christao purely out of jealousy, do nothing to protect the identity of our pristine Goa. Never, how these bloody traitors gather courage to protect Goa’s identity when these same Hindus and their elders in 1966 opted to merge Goa with Maharatra? The greatness of my great Goa and all its attributes associated with Goa namely Language and Culture etc., were kept on the edge of Maharastra to merge with it. This is the dirty class of these hoi-polloi Hindus mainly from the North Goa who came from neighbouring Maharastra and settled down in Goa closer to Maharastra boder and from where they acquired their surnames for them. Many of the Pednecar – Chopddenkar – Dhargalkar etc are from this past and as such how they will indicate their affiliation to Goa? They accuse Portuguese colonialism in Goa but many of them were involved in minting money by smuggling foreign goods from Goa border to Maharastra. A few of them were also involved in Mining business namely Bandodcar, Bandecar and others. They enjoyed very good life during the Portuguese era, they were very good chamchas of Portuguese but otherwise they point their fingers to others.
Then I moved to some of our neighbouring villages in our Constituency at about 10.00 AM and there too I found the atmosphere very peaceful. Hope it will remain so till the end of the voting schedule. Everywhere Congress is seen having pivotal role to play, most of the voters with whom I spoke they confessed it to me that even though they don’t like Congress yet they have voted for Congress because Congress is less dangerous while BJP is the worst dangerous.
A.Veronica Fernandes.