JC wrote: re 1: I wonder if Mr. Natekar looked up the meaning of the word 'fascist'. If he did, it is unlikely that he would have called a socialist party like Congress as being Fascist - a term which goes hand in hand with 'ultra-nationalist' parties.
Vinay's Comments: Fascism is political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. This definition aptly implies to Congress Party who can not find a leader for its party and have to depend on Nehru / Gandhi dynasty. The Congress party, warped by the clutch of the Gandhi-Nehru bloodline and their harem of Eunuchs (also known as the Congress party committees and activists and petty leaders who lick Sonia's boots and think they have performed a pilgrimage ), is in the amazing position of having ossified into a feudalistic organisation whose life is the preservation of power of one family. What a descent! From the noble heights of the liberation struggle it has become the private vessel for a Mafioso to take what they deem as their power and due. They have the mentality of Neo-Mughals JC wrote : re 2: This is a blatant lie. IF there is one thing good the Congress did - it was to make education and opportunities available to the masses of the poor of India. Mr. Natekar may get hypertensive about this but the other entity which did this is the Catholic Education System which can boast (rightfully) of having providing solid education to individuals of ALL religions e.g. Ashok Chowgule (St.Paul's, Belgaum), Sandeep Heble (Don Bosco's Panjim), Parvez Musharraf & LK Advani (St Patrick's, Karachi), Suresh Kalmadi (St Vincent's, Poona), Sunil Gavaskar (St Xavier's College, Bombay), etc etc Vinay's reply : All these exemplar above are elite Institutions which are out of bound for poor rural population and secondly these achievements are not of Congress party. India' progress lies not with few catholic English medium schools but providing basic education to rural masses which could make them differentiate between what is good and not good for betterment of their life. JC wrote : re 3: I am not sure that one can imbibe something on another. I always thought that the word "imbibe" denoted self. Having said that I invite Mr. Natekar to expand on that thought. Vinay's reply : Congress penetrated in to Goan politics by this theory of divide and rule. who initially replaced UGP by tagging MGP as communal and after fall of MGP they are now aiming BJP by their hate propaganda targeting particularly minority community for their vote bank. Congress party is surviving on love hate agenda. Compare development work done by Congress party in Goa for 20 years with that of just 4 years rule of BJP. JC wrote : re 4: This is the opportunity for Mr. Natekar to name the corrupt, tainted and scandalous politicians that (Catholic) Goans elect repeatedly and with whom the BJP has NOT made convenient political alliances. For balance, he may wish to name other corrupt, tainted and scandalous politicians with whom the BJP has made alliances. Vinay's reply : Ajgaokar Manohar, Angelo Fernandes, Dayanand Narvekar, Victoria Fernandes, Fransisco Silveira, Pandurang Madkaikar, Pratapsingh Rane, Ravi Naik, Mauvin Godhinho, Alexio Sequiera, Digambar Kamat, Filipe Nerry Rodrigues, Joaquim Alemao, Chandrakant Kavlekar Above are some of the the Congress MLA / Ministers's names. Can select from above who you think are not involved in any corrupt practice and you will have to vouch for it. (I have excluded Gurudas Gaus and Shyam Satardekar since they are relatively new in legislature and I have not much knowledge about them) Though I am a supporter of BJP , I agree with your view that BJP has made a blunder by aligning with some corrupt and scandalous politicians like Somnath Zuarkar, Babush Monseratte, Micy Pacheco, Chrchill Alemao. BJP should have preferred to stay out of power than to collaborate with such people to come to power which is a tradition of Congress. JC wrote : re 5: I must advise Mr. Natekar of two facts of life. (a) As of Dec 1961, every single Indian citizen has the Constitutional right to freely enter, move and reside in Goa. (b) the first initiator of migrant slum development in Goa was the MGP's Dayanand Bandodkar. Please vide Rajan Parrikar's picture of the slum in what is called Zuarinagar. The more recent mass movement of migrants has been facilitated by the Konkan Railway (Thank you George Fernandes). Now .... hit and run is like a piece of cake. The slum dwellers in Dongor apparently voted for Digambar Kamat when he contested on a BJP ticket. How does the Congress get the credit for this? ....and there was a plan for Cuncolim! Vinay's reply : I am not against total ban on migrants in Goa. We can not do without them for most of menial labour which we Goans will not go for. I don't think in 70 & 80s the migrant labourers of ZAC were given voter rights in MGP regime. It is Congress culture of encouraging such settlements for supplementing their vote bank. JC wrote : re 6: I am biased on this point. I oppose the Death Penalty. I also believe that state killing creates martyrs out of bandits and increases the level of violence which then kills innocents. BTW: There were many bandits operating in and around pre-1961 Goa. They attacked civilian targets - only to later proclaim themselves as Freedom Fighters. Please view the footnote of this article http://www.colaco.net/1/India-ter.htm <http://www.colaco.net/1/India-ter.htm> Vinay's reply : Why Mahatma Gandi and Indira Gandi's killers were not spared ? Can we put them on a pedestal as martyrs ? JC wrote : re 7: Please advise us about the Ram Sethu project esp wrt WHICH party was in govt when the project was approved Vinay's reply : My argument was regarding filing of affidavit about existence of Ram by ASI and not construction of Ram Sethu. There is no scientific proof that Ram did not exist although there is no proof that he existed; Scientists drift outside the scientific path. They make assertions about matters of faith, forgetting their own principles. They can say, at the most, there is no proof that Ram was a real person. They cannot proceed further and assert that Ram was not a real person. Regards Vinay
