Dears,
First of all a short prayer for the quick recovery of my friend and fire-brand,
Prajal Sakhardande. Agni Pariksha is not for teachers. He is obviously a
collateral victim.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues is made of sterner stuff. May he recover the full use of
his injured finger.
At 18 minutes past midnight [0018 hours] on Tuesday 14 October, 2008, Digital
News flashed news that will send a shiver down every activist's spine. It read
thus:
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS AIRES RODRIGUES AND PRAJAL SAKHARDANDE MERCILESSLY BEATEN UP
BY A MASKED GANG LATE NIGHT IN A PANAJI HOTEL. ADMITTED IN HOSPITAL.
Lecturer in history at Dhempe College-Miramar and GHAG as well as UTTH GOENKARA
activist, Mr Prajal Sakhardande; UTTH GOENKARA spokesman and lawyer Adv. Mr
Aires Rodrigues, and another three persons were at a restaurant in Panaji-Goa
when a gang of seven to eight people attacked them with weapons.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues is the lawyer representing the German national who had
accused the son of a cabinet minister of sexually harrassing her minor
school-going daughter was apparently the target of the brutal assualt by a gang
at a city restaurant. The rest were collateral victims.
Adv Aires Rodrigues and Prajal Sakhardande have been admitted
to a city hospital. Mr Rodrigues was operated as one his fingers was badly
injured.
The hospital was host to a crowd of media and the top police officials when
the news of this brutal assault was received.
It may be recalled that yesterday at a press conference he
and the German lady accused one minister's son of wrong doing.
Even earlier Mr Rodrigues had pointed out to certain alleged illegalities in
the affidavit filed by the minister while filing his returns leading to his
being sent a notice by the retirning officer.
It may be recalled that this is the same minister who has been accused of
attacking the Panaji City police station on 18 February, 2008, and he was sworn
in as a minister while a CBI inquiry is on.
The minister is an obvious suspect in the assault on the activists that could
have been carried out by anyone to defame him in this politically volatile
period. He was the prime accused in the Regional Plan 2011 ...but the work of
"development" has continued unabashedly even while he resigned the post of TCP
minister on 06 January, 2007.... almost two years ago. Almost every minister
has his fingers in the builder's pie and their pockets are filled with iron
ore! To top it all we have a Manohar v/s Manohar drama in the chai shop with
one Manohar charging at the Gram Sabhas like a dhirio bull in a China shop.
Dista toxem asso-na tem; dongor pois suttiant sazre, lagim suttiant kazre!
We need to see how the political drama unfolds.
Watch this space ...... and protect your back, unless it is already against the
wall!
It is all about money, honey.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
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