Joe lOBO <[email protected]> wrote: Santosh,
[1] Santosh , you cannot deny that after India , ignoring the U.N. " liberated " Goa and used a Military governor to rule by Presidential decree for over a year. That is the style of a military occupier keeping down a conquered people. [2] The fact most senior positions in Goa were advertised first in Delhi and other states so that competent Goans in Goa then could be bypassed for for out-of- state Indians has been swept under the carpet in the media. [3] Follwing that our hindu goans including that ******** Shri Bandodkar agitated for Goa to be merged into Maharashtra. COMMENT: While #1 is known, and sometimes worth recollecting, it is now ...... 'water under the bridge'.....despite the fact that more and more land appears to be disappearing from view. #2 is a fact and was engineered through a process of strategically creative advertising technique. http://www.colaco.net/1/letdown.htm also wrt #2: It is worth noting who were given licenses to run newspapers (and control minds) ..... and what restrictions were placed on newsprint. Also worth asking Lambert Mascarenhas why he left the post of editor of Navhind Times + why he kept silent for so long wrt the environmental degradation of Goa. Do not tell me that he wasn't cognisant of the "sorrowing" which "his land" was facing. #3 is not only 'not fully accurate', it also is a slap on the face of the (mainly) upper "caste" Hindus who opposed Bandodkar and his Bahujan Samaj supremacy plans. It is worth noting that there was significant funding and other support coming in from Maharashtra to the pro-merger elements - courtesy VP Naik (the then CM of Maharashtra) and the non-Goan segment of the mining lobby. The Maharashtra Information outfit in Panjim and Margao was thought, perhaps accurately, to be the conduit of this support. Having noted that, by a narrow majority, the anti-mergerites triumphed. If it was not for the upper 'caste' (read Saraswat Brahmin) Hindu support, th anit-mergerites would not have prevailed. Let's not forget that. BTW: Under the Portuguese, I am advised, that Hindus and Catholics + a sprinkling of Muslims lived peacefully (at least ostensibly) together. This deep fault line between these two communities was, IMHO and reading, opened up by Bandodkar and the pro-mergerite lobby....and further exacerbated by his succesors in the MGP and the Ps which inherited the MGP flock......and taken advantage of by the Churchills, Luizinhos and Sardinhas of Goan politics. Parrikar was astute enough to carefully cultivate 'Katlick' support in Fontainhas until he tripped by jumping in too ambitiously and too early with that partially-bogus VideoCD. If only, he was patient enough to wait for 2-3 years, it may have worked. Now, it appears that the only way the BJP is coming back into the saddle is by way of the creation of confusion on their part and by way of the corruption on the part of the present dispensation. I will not pay too much attention to the Airesian attempts at adding to this confusion. As you may have noted, it has some nuisance value but not much electoral weight. Perhaps, the next reverse-height is to contest at the Panchayat level (if posible). It is in this light, I see the communal and opportunitic elements getting all worked up - with this MOI issue to the point of conveniently sharing the same bed. One does not need binoculars to see that even from a distance. Does one? jc
