Hi Manohar,
Here is proof (see note below) that there is considerable support for
you among Goans and you have to get your electoral support machine humming
in each and every corner of Goa. Listen to the people, solve their most
pressing problems, sympathize with them and get their support - we engineers
are trained to solve problems in the most efficient way with the least
number of inputs - You know that approach does not work in politics !
All the Best in Your re-election bid. The whole of Goa appears to be
behind you, You need to harness this ovewhelming support for a resounding
victory! We all want you to be the Best and Longest serving CM of Goa before
the country demands that you be the Prime Minister of India !
Here are a few Goan IITians whose villages I may remember and who you
may want to tap for support:
Mark Fernandes (KGP - Oxel. now US), Luis Mesquitta
(KGP-Benauliim -he's now a Professor at PCCE, Verna), Tony Coutinho
(BOM -Cuncolim; now Pune), Angelo (US) and Ronald Mascarenhas-Bombay (KGP,
both Bardez), Prashant Sanzgiri
(KGP, now US), S. Phadte(KGP), Desmond D'Souza (BOM, Bardez; now US),
Victor Menezes(BOM - Bardez; now US), Ashank Desai(BOM - Bardez; India),
Thomas Lobo (KGP-Aldona; now Australia), Derek and Kevin Nazareth (both BOM,
ex Aldona, both US), Manuel Pontes (BOM-Bardez; now US), Victor
Nazareth (KGP -Bardez; now India), Mario Moniz (KGP-Bardez, now US),
Christopher Fernandes (BOM, now US) and there are many more !
You may note that the head of the Jesuit Catholic Fathers of the
Bombay Province is also a Goan IITian - Fr. Francis D'Mello (from around
Margao, he was B.Tech EE in IIT-BOM, in your time around 1976,77) - so you
can tap into our Catholic Church too for overwhelming support and clarify
your secular stand and concrete ideas for a Goa Dourada !
I think we should create IIT awareness in Goa in a big way and you
should you should revive your detailed plans to get an IIT branch
established in Goa - then most Goan engineers will be IITians and Goa will
become the Silicon Valley of India !
Best Regards,
Dr. Carmo D'Cruz,
Indian Harbour Beach, Florida.
ex-Velim in Salcete, Goa.
>From: goa world
>
>Dr. Carmo D'Cruz, compliments of the season. i full concur with your
views.
>
>Judging from the no-show of any 'ruling' MGP-turned-Congress
ministers and others from the administrative
>and legislative wings, and the ex-Goa CM Manohar Parrikar and his
full BJP associates being present and
>vocal in denouncing the Regional Plan, it is high time the Goans
decide who is good and who is not for
>themselves.
>
>Given the option, as per my earlier stance, I would go for the
latter.
>
>Indeed, the Goans might take your suggestion and mine and get Manohar
Parrikar voted in to Save Goa instead
>of the party showing the right hand symbol.
>
>Hope to see you for the Gomant Vishwa Sammellan (recently advertised
as Goan World Convention) which
>is of the work of the then forward thinking Goa CM Manohar Parrikar
and for which www.goa-world.com was a
>supporter in a small way by printing the 'Agenda' leaflets at that
time, way back in 2006!
>
>Btw, whatever happened to Chandrakant Keni, Herculano Dourado, et el?
No sign after the Gulf tours?
>
