PPS
PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY
PEOPLE'S POWER SYSTEM
Date: 25 April, 2010
Place: Grace Church Hall - Margao-Goa.
Preamble:
South Goa has the distinction of coming to Goa's rescue on two counts.
GOA was thus saved once through the ferociously fought Opinion Poll of 16
January, 1967, Goa remaining Goa that was for 450 odd years, thus saving Goa's
culture, ethnicity, unique identity and above all the Goanness of Goans,
irrespective of their religious beliefs and other definitions. All this
would have been lost if South Goa did not fight tooth and nail against the
Merger of Goa into Maharashtra.
GOA was saved the second time when Goa's mother tongue was threatened, not
being able to occupy the status of Goa's Official Language and when Goans,
especially the Shastikar Goans again fought tooth and nail for KONKANI in
1986. It is altogether a different matter that Devnagiri script was elevated
to ignore the much widely used Konkani's Roman script. The tussle that we
see today between these two scripts only helps in keeping Goa's mother
tongue less developed and less effective.
Since 1986, Goa has been torn to pieces, Goans never seeming to unite as one
to keep Goa's mainstays which are its hills, its vales, its rivers, its
forests and green cover, its wild-life, its water-falls, its endless
stretches of golden beaches, its agricultural fields, in short Goa's basic
and world admired ecological balance and environmental marvel. But more than
that the Goan Identity seems to be on the diluting trend. And as expected,
when Goans themselves have been divided in the understanding as to what
exactly they want, outsiders have edged in and taken advantage to the extent
that most Goans that matter believe that their beloved GOA has reached a
stage where it is beyond saving. The most blamed entity is Goa's Political
class, warranting Goa's much loved artist and singer-musician- REMO
Fernandes to publicly declare with frustration that Goa's politicians of
all colour and creed must be drowned into the Arabian Sea.
The Question is : 'Is there a hope for GOA, then?'
The deafening answer is 'YES', through the newly born 'PPS' - the superior
movement of the conscious people of Goa which will work towards uniting all
other people's movements in Goa for just one cause, on one agenda... the
agenda to provide Goa the much needed 'POLITICAL SANITY' where 'political
madness has been reigning steadfast since 1961.
The 'PPS' movement is designed to be totally and completely 'political', non
competitive and 'non-partisan' in nature. Goans are fed-up and frustrated of
being taken for jolly good rides by cunning and self-seeking politicians for
far too long. They have now chosen to come together to demand political
sanity in the way Goa is governed. And to demand this of Goa's political
dispensation, who else is better positioned than the Shastikars who have
been the guardians of Goa? In the maiden meet of the PPS, the following
RESOLUTION is unanimously passed on 25th. April, 2010 at the Grace Church
Hall, Margao [South Goa] in order to rise to the occasion of saving Goa for
yet the third and hopefully the last time, which resolution reads as
follows:
THE RESOLUTION
WE THE PEOPLE OF GOA DO HEREBY COME TOGETHER TO STAY TOGETHER IN OUR FIGHT
TO BRING POLITICAL SANITY IN GOA'S GOVERNANCE FOR ONCE, HAVING BEEN CHEATED
AND FRUSTRATED BY OUR POLITICIANS AND OUR POLITICAL PARTIES WHOM WE HAVE
BEEN ELECTING AT EVERY ELECTION BELIEVING THAT THEY WILL WORK FOR THE
BETTERMENT OF GOA AND GOANS. WE HAVE REALISED THAT EVEN IF WE ELECTED
'SAINTS' TO GOVERN US, WE SHALL BE DISAPPOINTED IN THEM IF THEY CHOSE TO
WORK RANDOMLY AND UNCO-ORDINATEDLY IN THE ABSENCE OF A SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE
TO GO BY AND TO FOLLOW. HENCEFORTH, WE WANT OUR POLITICIANS AND OUR
POLITICAL PARTIES TO WORK TOWARDS PUTTING TOGETHER THE PROCEDURES FOR SUCH
A CO-ORDINATED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE IN PLACE, FIRST, BEFORE THEY COME
VOOING US FOR OUR VOTES. WE, IN OUR OWN TURN AND STYLE, WILL CHOOSE THAT
POLITICAL PARTY OR A COLLECTIVE OF SINCERE PEOPLE WHICH NOT ONLY BRINGS OUT
A WRITEN DOWN CO-ORDINATED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE FOR GOA UNDER WHICH IT WILL
WORK BUT ALSO SELL IT TO US, CONVINCING US THAT SUCH A SYSTEM WILL, IN FACT,
WORK, AND GO ON TO DEMONSTRATE TO US HOW IT WILL WORK AND WHY, BEFORE WE
CHOOSE TO ADOBT THE SAME ALONG WITH THE CORRESPONDING POLITICAL PARTY FOR
THE NEXT FIVE-YEAR TERM OF GOVERNANCE.
THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE THAT WE SHALL BE LOOKING FOR MUST HAVE, AS ITS MAIN
STAY, AN INGREDIENT OF SELF-SACRIFICE AND THE WILL TO WORK FOR THE
BETTERMENT OF GOA AND GOANS. AS MENTIONED EARLIER, WE SHALL WANT TO REMAIN
SELFISHLY POLITICAL, GUARDING OUR POLITICAL RIGHTS SINCE WE HAVE REALISED
THAT POLITICS OF THE DAY RUNS OUR ENTIRE LIVES AND THOSE OF OUR DEPENDENTS
WHO WILL INHERIT GOA IN THE LONG RUN.
WE HEREBY DECLARE THAT WE SHALL WANT TO CHOOSE A SELFLESS SYSTEM OF
GOVERNANCE WHICH ALSO REMAINS A COMMITTED AND DISCIPLINED SYSTEM AT ALL
TIMES, WORKING IN THE INTEREST OF GOA, GOANS AND THE POSTERITY ON A
SUSTAINABLE LONG-TERM PROGRAM BASIS.
IF THE POLITICAL CLASS DOES NOT COME UP WITH A PROGRAMME OF GOVERNACE WHICH
WE SO DESIRE, WE SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO PUT IN PLACE SUCH AN ALTERNATE
PROGRAMME AND WORK UNITEDLY TO MAKE IT A SUCCESS FOR GOA AND GOANS.
THIS COMMUNIQUE MUST SERVE AS A VERY SERIOUS WARNING FOR ALL POLITICALLY
CONCERNED.
SD/
PPS = PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY
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It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST citizens contest elections.
It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST citizen voters elect good, honest
representatives.
GOA urgently needs 'GOOD, HONEST, DISCIPLINED SYSTEM of GOVERNANCE'.
Wherein, even a dishonest person is forced to be good, honest n disciplined,
or to QUIT.
Only through PPS can such 'good, honest n disciplined system of governance'
be identified and accepted.
PPS GOA =PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY = PEOPLE'S POWER SYSTEM
for a date in 2012
Be bold. Display the 'PPS' sticker on your vehicle today, to reject
political madness tomorrow.
Contacts: South Goa: 9850459648, 9923055673
North Goa: 9890470896, 9422060347
