Open letter to Mr. Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Minister of GOA. Dear Mr. Manohar Parrikar,
At the outset, let me make it very clear to you that I am writing this letter to you, as the CEO, and the Chief Minister of GOA. And therefore, I need to keep in mind that this address to you must observe all the due respect and civility as demanded by the chair that you are presently occupying, and not necessarily as a mark of respect for you as a person. Needless to say that I write this letter in my personal capacity, as a concerned cititzen of GOA with very proven and transparent secular credentials. You must be aware, through the State President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr. Rajendra Arlekar, who attended the Heads of Political Parties of Goa 'Meet' called by the Governor of Goa on December 27, p.m., to discuss the 'Controversial VCD', that I have, in the capacity as the head of a political party, while addressing His Excellency during the discussions, named you, on several occasions, as 'the brain' behind the VCD, being the professed point-man of the communal RSS in Goa ( while none of the other heads prefered to do so), and have asked for the dismissal of your government and the imposition of the President's rule in Goa, with immediate effect. I have done so because I am convinced to the very debt of my bones that you are furthering the dying agenda of the RSS's 'Communal Divide' ideology in Goa, ever since you have taken over as Goa's CM. I have pointed out to His Excellency that you had taken active part in the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. I have bitterly opposed your occupying the honourable chair of the Chief Minister of Goa, ever since you tricked Francisco Sardinha into clearing the way for you to sit on this chair, fraudulently and with intense political manipulations and arm-twisting tactics. And you are all too aware that I have been working, in my own little ways, to alert the people of Goa that your continuance in the exalted chair as Goa's Chief Minister will do more evil for Goa and for the average Goan, than good. But the intensity of my anti-RSS feelings against you had never attained the saturation point in these few years since 1999, in the understanding that "one should not hate the certified poison to the extent that it is allowed to corrupt one's own being" and in the understanding that the people of Goa, who are more suscegad than alert, needed the time to realize the danger they are facing. But the entire situation has changed for me since last evening when I watched the Goan cable TV news channels, where Mr. Luisizho Faleiro has made a categorical statement that the Chief Minister has made a remark that "All those who oppose the VCD have Portuguese blood in them". I personally take this as a most demeaning statement that Goa's Chief Minister can make, for it insults my entire being as a proud and bonafide Goan. And for your kind information, you need to hear from me that you have crossed all norms of decency by encroaching on the massive tolerance of Goans like me, that from now on, you and your RSS agenda to divide and rule Goans will be fought back tooth and nail, civilly and democratically. Your above derogatory statement, which has also been reported in the section of Marathi language newspapers, is demeaning because I am a Goan who has never held any great respect for the Portuguese colonial rulers and more so, because I have grown up to suffer for being a Portuguese subject. I have hated my contemporary Goans (read Hindus) calling me a Portuguese and telling me to go to Portugal if I am not happy in Goa. But I could, and I have, made them see reason as to how I am a bonafide Goan, a bonafide Indian, whereas they themselves could be bonafide Indians but were not bonafide Goans and that the red blood of Goa is running through my veins. But if the Chief Minister of my State who is ruling by default, without a mandate to do so, and who knows that I oppose this vile VCD of his own making from my bones and still prefers to say that there is Portuguese blood running in my veins, nothing more could be so insulting to me. Therefore, I am telling you, here and now, that if you think that it is so, then just as well. I prefer to have the Portuguese blood running in my veins than to have the vicious, poisonous bloody-black blood of the RSS running into my veins just like it is running in yours and your RSS clan. I have gone on record, many times, to say that you have not a single drop of Goan blood in your veins to make you a Goan. That was my qualified assumption so far. But you have now proved that it is true. You must be pat with the RSS history. But let me enlighten you on the Goan history some. Bruto Da Costa was a thorough gentleman, an advocate and a thorough-bred Goan, who did not only oppose the Portuguese in Goa, but it is on record that he, not only did have a duel of words with the Portuguese Governor of Goa, during the erstwhile Portuguese regime, but also had a duel with fists which saw him and the Portuguese Governor rolling on the floor of the Governor's chamber. By your statement above, you have awakened another Bruto in me, if need be, who is not averse to give you the taste of what the Portuguese blood, what the Bloody-Black RSS blood and what the Goan blood, really is. If you still consider yourself to be a responsible person at the helm of Goan affairs, even temporarily so, which I don't (see you as anything close to being a responsible person), I expect a response from you to this communication. Rest assured, I am, and I shall be ready to deal with any tone you may prefer to use in your response, failing which I shall consider that you prefer running with your black RSS tail between your legs. I have, however, not been able to be hypocritical in hiding my real feelings towards your agenda in this communication despite my initial observations, for which I deeply regret. Floriano Lobo 383A Pirazona, Moira - Bardez - Goa- 403 507 Ph: 2470223 Mob: 9422060347
