Not to sure how much grain is there in this information below. Maybe left wing Portuguese doctors in Goa wanted to pull the rug under Salazar and came up with his false info. With Thal producing such anti info our President Pandurang now in exile in the US could be repatriated. BC 1. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister, in line with India's policy of anti-imperialism and non-alignment was of the firm opinion that the entire Indian Ocean should be a zone of peace and that U.S. imperialism should not have even a toe-hold on Indian soil. It was the intelligence information that Dr. Salazar (the then dictator of Portugal) was about to give Mormugao Port on long-lease to the U.S.A. for putting up a naval base here, which prompted Pandit Nehru to swiftly send in the Indian Armed Forces to liberate Goa on 19-12-1961. Pandit Nehru thereby prevented the setting up of a U.S. Navy base in the Mormugao Port which would have been a perennial thorn in the flesh of India. The action of the present Congress-led U.P.A. Government to permit the very same U.S. Navy to come into Mormugao Port and also to loiter all along the West Coast of India, therefore represents a complete and shameful reversal of Pandit Nehru's progressive position by his very own party.
