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----- Original Message ----- From: goasuraj To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:46 AM Subject: Open Letter To The Voters Of Poinguinim OPEN LETTER TO THE VOTERS OF POINGUINIM. OCTOBER 3, 2004 Dear Poinguinim voters, On October 13, 2004, you will be casting your 'valuable vote' in these forced bye-elections. You are, no doubt, in a dilemma of "whom to vote". Your once abandoned, little thought of, far away Constituency has suddenly come into the limelight. All political parties are trying to please you, appeal to you, brow-beat you , inducing and urging you to go and vote in their favour, their candidates. And you are dazzled with the weighty offers of 'all round developments', of offers of 'government jobs', jobs through setting up of 'mighty industries'; new roads, bridges, this scheme and that scheme; the heaven itself. There is the Congress, which so much as didn't even look your way, nor did it bother to find out what was happening to you (kidney failures), for the past many years of its rule. Now, you see its office bearers and partymen in droves at your doorsteps, apologizing for the past mistakes, asking you for forgiveness, begging you to vote for its candidate once again, brainwashing you through blaming its own ex-MLA for having duped you and the party to change sides. The MGP and the UGDP and even NCP which are shedding 'crocodile tears' with the Congress in these bye-elections seem to be having their feet firmly planted on TWO BOATS with their respective MLAs supporting the BJP openly and/or clandestinely. There is the ruling BJP, which has not bothered to so much as put a single nail in your Constituency for the past almost 4 years, penalizing you for voting to elect Isidore Fernandes in the last assembly elections. Having brazenly induced and bribed him to change sides, it has fielded this turncoat as its candidate, promising you everything under the sun, if you will elect him again. You have the pleasure of the Chief Minister himself begging you for your vote at your doorsteps, promising your sons and daughters government jobs in return. You will, in all sincerity, ask yourselves the question: "Why this change in heart, Now? Why not before? Can we trust him?" October 13 will be recorded in the history of Goa's politics, as well as in the history of 'Democracy', as a 'Lucky' or 'Unlucky' Day, where a 'PRECEDENT' will be set. The moot question is: " SHALL YOU, OR CAN YOU ALLOW BRAZENNESS OF ACTIONS BY YOUR MLAs TO MAKE A MOCKERY OF DEMOCRACY FOR PERSONAL GAINS? " You, dear POINGUINKARS, have the power to set this precedent right, to make October 13 a splendidly 'Lucky Day' for Goa'. Vote en mass to DEFEAT Isidore Fernandes. Not for the reasons that the Congress and its shifty allies are giving you. DEFEAT Isidore Fernandes to 'arrest the moves' of other ambitious and self-centered MLAs, who are waiting for your verdict, to follow in the footsteps of Isidore Fernandes, should you vote to re-elect him, the real reason which the Congress and its allies have kept away from you. Vote to DEFEAT Isidore Fernandes to send a distinct signal to these other MLAs in waiting, that they too will be rejected, downright. You are being told by Isidore Fernandes himself; by his friendly eminent lawyers, by the BJP itself, that his move to resign as CONGRESS MLA and re-contest on the BJP TICKET is 'politically correct'. You must REJECT this argument whole-sale. If Isidore Fernandes' move was 'politically correct' he would not have re-contested on the BJP ticket. He would have re-contested as an 'Independent'. A person will not shift ideologies overnight from 'secular ' to 'fascist'. No matter what Isidore Fernandes and others tell you, you must believe that this is happening only for the love of the COLOUR OF MONEY. Thank you. Yours Sincerely, Sd/- (Floriano Lobo) President Goa Su-Raj Party 2nd. Floor, Karakar Building, Angod-Mapusa - 4003 507 Tel: 2266111
