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Re: [Goanet]BJP Government approves painting of Saligao Church at exchequer cost On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: >> State to bear painting cost of Saligao Church > > It seems to me a shame that parishioners and > ex-parishioners cannot bear the cost of getting the > church painted!� What is the use of all the Saligao > socials being held??? Well said Senhor Gabriel de Figueirado, It's an added shame, indeed, �when a patrakar from the Saligao constituency who does not want to irritate his MLA, states that it is the BJP Government�who wishes to 'paint' the Church clean for its benefit. Is it not a shame that the Saligao villagers�and parishioners have been sleeping over the sorry state�of the church appearance, although it features on the touristic map of Goa? Come visit Goa, and see�the sorry state of Goa's churches and heritage, this patrakar wants to say. What's the local MLA who�is just sitting around�in the vicinity doing about it? Do not blame the BJP Government for�publicity sake for everything it initiates! I am unsure if this news is flashed all around in some North and South Indian newspapers to get the patrakar some coverage! Do it yourself and get your MLA moving, rather than have the old chap (MLA) enjoying the 'dispotto giraiz' visiting the Goa Vidhan Sabha for a day or two in a week for so many years. Show that you can do better than the Government in power with full mandate from the Goans ! Keep the 'ifs' and 'buts' when commenting. What has this got to do with Goa being 'secular'? I am unsure even if the Congress leader(s) in Goa, including the local MLA has seen the church in its present shape in recent months. � If painting a church gets the villagers divided or as the patrakar stated 'the people', then only Saligao Church's patron "Mae de Deus" and Goa's patron (Goencho Saib) can 'save' these villagers (the people), who go with such 'foxy' comments from time to time, the recent being the one as noted in the posting archived at http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-November/020630.html This patrakar is worried about the 'single seat party' MLA. It's a open challenge that the MLA resign a la Poinguinim MLA and show/express his resentment rather than have some news flashes through some fellow village patrakar on everything Goa's Chief Minister does or expresses to do! When the same village Church was illuminated at the Government's expense, it is not differentiated whether some 'BJP' elements also voted for it ? Why? Were there no cost involved for this? As well as for other churches and temples too? Didn't the Congress initiate this 'idea'. The irony is this sort of cheap tricks wont make any difference. It is imperative that Goa comes out of its obsessive disorder and its current 'opposition' MLAs get the vision which are required by statesmen and they throw aside the cheap jingoistic rhetoric, and think for betterment of their own population. It's patrakars like this who cause rift between two communities. And I doubt if this posting will appear on this mailing list...... hence copying it to TGF too. AlmeidaG(ji) c.c.: Goa's Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Parrikar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
