JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS.
This is in reply to Floriano Lobo goasuraj Pratima Gaonkar. (goasuraj) write
up on 29.10.06 in response to my article on the suicides of sportspersons
Angela Gomes and Pratima Gaumkar and harassment to Dr. Susane DSouza by Goa
Sports Minister Maddkaikar.
Florian I highly appreciate your comments on the said subject. I find in
you and your party someone fighting for the cause of Goa and Goans
dedicatedly. This I have seen with my own eyes. Your party is not like any
other party in Goa that looks only for the election gains. You take up
causes of public interest. I know your efforts to raise funds for Pratimas
poor mother and while you were raising funds for her, Maddkaikar and others
were sleeping in Goa. What have they done for the poor family members of
Pratima? Why till now the person who has driven Pratima to commit suicide
is not brought to trial? Where are Madkaikar and Congress Party? You said
your Party will revive the cases into the deaths of Pratima Gaonkar and
Angela Gomes and bring the culprits to book. This is a promise the Party
makes to Sports loving Goa and Goans. I and innumerable friends of mine
support you and your party on this subject and if necessary I will stand by
you on this issue. The two suicides of Angela Gomes and of Pratima Gaumkar
must be probed and guilty not only exposed but also punished.
About Dr. Susane DSouza, she was my colleague at St. Xaviers College Mapusa
for 4 years and also at Post Graduate Center Panjim. Besides a very good
student throughout her academic career, she was an outstanding sportsperson
and was a champion athlete in High Jump. She did very well even at All
India level. She played number of games and participated in many athletics
events at School, College, Goa and National levels. She possessed high
moral character and was a disciplined girl during those days maintaining her
high integrity. Madkaikar has no reason to punish her because Dr. Susane
will not merit any such action from her superiors because of her high morals
and other high grade characteristics. She has devoted so much of her
youthful life for the cause of Goan sports and for such a person to punish
in this way is a crime. SAG and Madkaikar will have to answer this question
during the election time which is due shortly. I have already spoken to many
of the people in Madkaikars constituency and they have also vowed to make
this issue during the election time. I will also speak to Nirmala Sawant to
make this as an election issue during the forthcoming election. Nirmala
Sawant was an opponent of Mudkaikar during the last election. Three days
back I called Tiatrist William de Curtorim to tell him to sing another song
hitting hard Madkaikar for being revengeful towards Dr. Susane. Earlier in
one song William praised Madkaikar and made him unnecessarily popular. Not
only Dr. Susane but her great father Joviniano and her younger sister
Yolanda brought laurels to Goa and Goans thru sports. Her father was once
one of the top Goan footballers in Goa and also in Bombay while playing for
Tatas. Arpora School during those days rarely produced such a gigantic and
brilliant athlete and footballer. He was the pride of Arpora School then.
His was one of the photos adorned the Display Wall of Arpora School during
those days. Only the photos of outstanding sportsmen of Arpora School were
displayed that time.
Yolanda Dr. Susanes younger sister was also a good athlete and a top
footballer representing Goa and even captaining Goan team. Dr. Susanes
family members have given so much for the cause of Goan sports and to treat
such a person shabbily by Madkaikar is like committing a crime which should
not go unforgiven. I thought people from Calangute will raise this issue
forcefully in Goa when their own daughter was treated shabbily by Madkaikar
but surprised no saner voice came out from anyone in Calangute. Earlier
Calangute was known to raise its voice for justice but now no, because the
villagers of those days fighting for justice are no more in that village
now, it looks. Florian Bab you said in your reply that Needless to say
that the Party is distressed at the way Dr. Suzane D'Souza has been
humiliated at the hands of the SAG and now the untimely death of Angela
Gomes. That Dr. Suzane D'Souza had to knock at the doors of the High Court
of Bombay at Goa to rectify the injustice over her emoluments is another
thing altogether. Who are these guys who treat our persevering Goan athletes
in this manner? The people of Goa and largely the sporting
fraternity in Goa must make it a point to read the Chapter X (at Page 62) of
the Party's ROAD MAP FOR GOA under Sports & Leisure. Florian Bab, I have
read your Road Map for Goa and am sure you will fight for justice not only
to Dr. Susane, Angela Gomes and Pratima Gaumkar but also to all other such
sportspersons.
Now coming to young Goan wonder kid Ivana Furtado who recently won the World
Youth Cess Championship at Georgia in USA, I am very happy to know this kid
has made Goa and Goans very proud. But who was responsible for her success?
Surely her parents and brother who all even accompanied the wonder kid to
USA by spending money from their own purse and not from the Goa Government
and Madkaikar is now making a big show as if he is responsible for Ivanas
gains. Goa Government and Goas Montris are not producing and not making
big sportspersons in Goa, Goas sportspersons are made by their own parents
and family members. Goa Government and Goas Montris have not yet created in
Goa cradles for producing top sportspersons and with Montris like Madkaikar
and Government like that of Congress in Goa will never be able to create
cradles for sportspersons in Goa. On the contrary Goas Montris instead of
using the money meant for producing cradles for Goas sportspersons will use
the same money for their own personal benefits. Such rogues are Goas
Montris and how such rogues will develop sports in Goa? Im sure even
Steffi Cardoso the shining athlete of Goa is the making of her father
Eugeno Cardoso who was once a great sportsman of Goa, he hails from Saipem
Candolim. Goa Government and Goas Montris come into the picture only at
later stages to capitalize on the success of our sportspersons for their
political gains. Madkaikar announced a cash prize of 5 lakhs of rupees for
Ivana but this money from where? It is not from Madkaikars pocket but from
the Government and when it is from the Government then this money belongs to
all of us the tax payers and not from Madkaikar who should not take credit
for this gift. It is our money, that is of public.
In Goa there is an opinion that only by entering into the Goa Legislative
Assembly one can fight for justice. But according to me it is not correct.
To fight for justice one need not necessarily join the tribe of MLAs and
MPs. By being out of Leg. Assembly and Parliament one can do better to
fight for justice. Jeyprakash Narain created havoc for Indira Gandhi and
her Congress by being out of Parliament. Mahatma Gandhi did not enter into
Parliament nor Acharya Vinobha Bhave. Florian Bab you and your party can do
wonders because I know you personally well and your party president too and
how dedicated and sincere you are. You need not fear for the victory or
loss in the elections but contest the elections and create fear into the
opposition. Expose their maldeeds at the husting and educate the voters and
give a strong fight for your opponents though you may not come out
victorious. During the last elections some people disliked my attitude of
openly supporting your party candidates but I know your party credentials
very well. I was a witness to your party inauguration a few years back in
Panjim. Because I know you and your party very well, last year I accepted
your request to address two public meetings of yours in Goa while for others
even at Calangute I refused. Finally, I count on you for getting justice
for Pratima Gaumkar, Angela Gomes and Dr. Susane.
Florian Bab, we cannot leave our budding sportspersons and great sports
administrators like Dr. Susane into the hands of our cheap Montris. They
are so cruel, as I heard recently that they are even demanding sexual
favours from female sportspersons like what they do in Sri Lanka and thus
kill the upcoming sportspersons. This has to be exposed and stopped
otherwise Goa will fail to produce great sportspersons. Our Church leaders
must also ponder over this subject because by raising this issue from the
pulpit priests can do great awakening in Goa to regain the losing moral
fabrics of Goa.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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