Dears, The "Navhind Times" second lead Headline reads, "Anti-SEZ group asks tourists to leave state by Dec. 28" the GT headline reads "Leave by Friday tourists told" while the middle of the front page in the Herald reads " Anti-SEZ activists up the ante. Perhaps, we are about to see history ..in all its gory brilliant red ....repeat itself!
QUOTE "The GMAS wishes the people to have peaceful Christmas in thestate but, at the same time, cannot allow continuous joyous holidays extending into the New Year." Mr. Saldanha observed. UNQUOTE. [Navhind Times of 24 December, 2007 page 1] Mr. Matanhy Saldanha, former UGDP MLA and Minister for Tourism in the Manohar Parrikar-led BJP Coalition Government, knows exactly where to hit the Goa State Exchequer. There are a few parallels with the KPA history already: 1. A meeting at the Azad Maidan on18 December 2. Liberation Day deadline, 3. the raking up of the emotional South Goa between 14 and 18 December 4.. a Congress-led Government that is dithering instead of deciding [even the promised Task Force Interim Report is delayed and no White Paper on SEZ is public yet. ] 5. a disgruntled GPCC and GPYC [after attack in Taleigao] , 6. a South Goa politician in the wilderness and 7. a former Congressman in Navelim constituency on another party ticket. The difference is that the Independent candidate is not in Margao but further South and the MLA of Margao, a Saraswat, is the CM of Goa, instead of a Rajput/Maratha from Sattari. Will that matter? Access to dynamite has never been a problem in Goa, filled with legal and illegal iron ore mines and plenty of illegal laterite and metal aggregate quaries as it is. Our police are sussegad and there is no police "intelligence" worth its name. Any arsonist can have a blast as easily as a alcohol, drug or music fanatic. Draw your own conclusions of how GMAS wants to "paint the town" red this New Year. The date 28 December is, incidentally, the feast of the "Holy Innocents" comemorating the killing of hundreds of innocent children by King Herod in order to kill Jesus. Jezu Krist escaped from King Herod as Krishna escaped from Kamsa. The rest is history. Just a clipping of history in Amchem Bangarachem Goem written by Ashok Row Kavi in The WEEK January 18-24. 1987, issue: QUOTE "On December 18 [1987], the KPA held a massive rally at Panaji's Azad Maidan and demanded that Rane resign immediately. Luizinho Faleiro asked the people to start a civil disobedience movement by not paying taxes, bus fares, and ferry charges "to bring this anti-people government down". [Luizinho]* Faleiro also said the "deadline given to the government was over and the KPA leaders would not be responsible if anything happened tomorrow," the Liberation Day.Surely enough, the next day, the whole of south Goa, comprising Salcete, Sanguem and Canacona burst into violence. "It was too well organised to be called spontaneous," said Collector [Shakti]* Sinha. Roads had been blocked the previous night with boulders and uprooted trees (more than a thousand trees had been cut with electric saws), telephone and electric poles, billboards and even cars dragged out during the night. A culvert at Vernem was damaged by dynamite. Barrels of bitumen were rolled into the roads and set afire. Seven-inch nails welded on steel plates were placed on roads to puncture tyres. Water pipelines were blasted between Mungal and Margao. When asked how spontaneous all this was, Jitendra Deshprabhu, an aggressive Youth Congressman opposed violently to Rane, said: "We Goankars are pretty well organised. This isn't all that difficult as you think it is." In other words, the Congress dissidents knew what was up but preferred to embarrass their own chief minister. Even Goa PCC(I) president Sulochana Katkar, a nominated MLA, has taken the anti-Rane stand. In the legislature of 30 > elected MLAs and three nominated women MLAs, the Congress(I) has 22 MLAs > including Speaker Dayanand Narvekar. MGP has seven MLAs and the Goa Congress, > one [Luizinho Faleiro]*. The remaining one, independents. [Adv. Uday > Bhembre]*" UNQUOTE. * Names in brackets aded by me for ready reference. Today's news has not yet been uploaded on the NT and Herald sites.Read the hard copy or look up a liitle later and you will find more similarities. QUOTE "The GMAS wishes the people to have peaceful Christmas in the state but, at the same time, cannot allow continuous joyous holidays extending into the New Year." Mr. Saldanha observed. UNQUOTE. Mr. Matanhy Saldanha, former UGDP MLA and Minister for Tourism in the Manohar Parrikar-led BJP Coalition Government, knows exactly where to hit the State Exchequer. He may not be as smart as Adv. Uday Bhembre and GMAS may be nothing in terms of mobilisation when compared to KPA, but violence needs hjust a few henchmen willing to sell their futures for a little excitement. Those who were involved in the Meta Strips agitation nay be smarter by now ... but there are always others. Even the Padre Vigar of Verna did not know what he was doing on 20 December, 2007. I am sure he is not the only one who got fooled that day. Mog asundi. Miguel On Dec 16, 2007 9:37 AM, Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dears, > > According to the Navhind Times of Sunday 16 December, 2007,Siddhanath Buyao > is reported to have made a statement about violence in a Press Conference > addressed by him alongside the GMAS leader Matanhy > Saldanha. His words as quoted in apostrophes by NT are, "The Government will > have to face the consequences if the Movement Against SEZ turns VIOLENT." > Draw your own conclusions of how GMAS wants to "paint the town" red this > Christmas and New Year. > > Mog asundi. > > Miguel > > P.S. > > There is a proposed rally of the GMAS and "Youth For Goa" [YFG] led by > Matanhy's niece, Malisa Simoes as Convenor, at Verna on 20 December, > 2007. As per the numerals taught to me in primary school, 20 comes > after 19. See below for details. > ............................................................ > > Govt gets Dec 19 deadline on SEZs Activists threaten violence > BY HERALD REPORTER > > > MARGAO, DEC 15 — Maintaining that the Special Economic Zones were > approved during the tenure of then Chief Minister, Pratapsing Rane, > the Goa's Movement Against SEZs has threatened to intensify the > ongoing struggle by even resorting to violent means if all the SEZs, > IT Parks and the Food Parks are not scrapped from the Goan soil by > December 19. > The body has also made a clarion call to the people of Goa to assemble > at Panjim on December 18 to show solidarity with the movement and > lodge protest against the government. > "Government's White paper should contain details such as how many > people are listed on the employment exchange, their age, educational > qualifications and their origin. It appears the Employment Exchange > has turned static in recent years", maintained Matanhy Saldanha, while > addressing a press conference during his SEZ hatao yatra in Salcete. > Saldanha said the ongoing movement against SEZs is not political as is > being spread by certain vested interests, saying "this is a body of > Goans formed to save the interest of Goa, because the SEZs will be > disastrous for Goans". > He reiterated that SEZs will change the demography of Goa, wherein 8-9 > lakh additional manpower would come into the State to meet labour > requirements. "There will be no Goan left with this huge influx of > migrants. There will be deterioration of infrastructure, water, power > supply, garbage disposal", he added. > Saldanha feared that the population density will increase tremendously > with the projected influx of 40 lakh people and said the government > has plans to set up as many as 7 IT parks and not just one in Dona > Paula. > Replying to a question, he said the SEZs were approved during the > Pratapsing Rane government, but hastened to remind that government is > a continuous process and that Digambar Kamat should scrap the SEZs. > When newsmen asked him that he had opposed Meta Strips as well, > Matanhy shot back "we had opposed pollution in Meta Strips". The > factory is now running only 10 per cent of its capacity. They are also > not using scrap, but ingots, he said adding, he would be the first > person to come out and fight if there's pollution in the factory. > > "I am not an agent or a puppet and do not collect underhand money", > he maintained. > Sidhanath Buyao, Rupesh Mahatme and others were present. > > > > > -- > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, > Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa > Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread the Christmas Cheer, even when you're not here! Send classic greetings to your loved ones in Goa. 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