Dear MP, Shantaram Naik Sir,
While you were at it, exercising your tonsils in the Parliament on Goa's so
called Liberation, praising Nehru, let me educate you about the world
reaction to Goa's invasion by India and specifically the pontifical
professor of non-violence, Nehru:-
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International reaction to the capture of Goa
"The casualties were minimum. I am in favour of all wars being like the
war between India and Portugal -- peaceful and quickly over!" - J. K.
Galbraith, former US ambassador to India[54]
[edit] United States of America
The United States' official reaction to the invasion of Goa was delivered by
Adlai Stevenson in the UN Security Council, where he condemned the armed
action of the Indian government and demanded that all Indian forces be
unconditionally withdrawn from Goan soil.
To express its displeasure with the Indian action in Goa, the US Senate
Foreign Relations Committee attempted, over the objections of President John
F. Kennedy, to cut the 1962 foreign aid appropriation to India by 25
percent.[64]
Referring to the perception, especially in the West, that India had
previously been lecturing the world about the virtues of nonviolence, US
President Kennedy told the Indian ambassador to the US, “You spend the last
fifteen years preaching morality to us, and then you go ahead and act the
way any normal country would behave.... People are saying, the preacher has
been caught coming out of the brothel.”[65]
In an article titled "India, The Aggressor", The New York Times on 19
December 1961, stated "With his invasion of Goa Prime Minister Nehru has
done irreparable damage to India's good name and to the principles of
international morality."[66]
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WHEREAS, YOUR NEHRU WAS EXERCISING HIS TONSILS SINCE 1954 TO THIS EXTENT.
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANGE THAT TONE????
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I want to explain myself. If the people of Goa, that is, minus the
Portuguese Government - if and when the Portuguese go and the people of Goa
deliberately wish to retain their separate identity - I am not going to
bring them by force or compulsion or coercion into the Indian Union.
I merely say that my national interest involves the removal of the
Portuguese from Goa, not coercion being used in bringing about the union of
Goa with India, although I wish it, I desire it and it is the only solution.
That is a matter ultimately for the people of Goa to decide.
I want to make it perfectly clear that I have no desire to coerce Goa to
join India against the wishes of the people of Goa.
But the point is that we feel that Goa's individuality should remain and
that whenever the time comes for any changes, internal or other, it will be
for the people of Goa acting freely to decide upon them."
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Mr. Naik, if you want to be respected as a Goan, do not let down Goans in
the Indian Parliament again like this by praising people who do not keep to
their words.
floriano lobo
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "SHANTARAM NAIK" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 7:01 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Nehru liberated Goa despite international pressures
NEHRU LIBERATED GOA DESPITE INTERNATIONAL PRESSURES –
SHANTARAM NAIK MAKES SPECIAL MENTION IN RAJYA SAHBA
In a special mention made in the Rajya Sabha today on the occasion of
50th Anniversary of Goa’s liberation, Mr. Shantaram Naik MP, said that
it was Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, who, disregarding the opinion of major
powers who were against any operation by India, ordered the military to
march into Goa on 18th December, 1961.
It was the policy of peace that took some years before Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru could say “Enough is Enough” and took the action to liberate Goa.
Mr. Naik said the freedom fighters from Goa were assisted by several
other freedom fighters from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and other
States from time to time.
Mr. Naik also said that despite foreign rule of such a long period Goans
retained their religious and customary rights.
After the liberation of Goa, Goans were given an opportunity through an
opinion poll, to decide between merger into Maharashtra and the status
of Union Territory, he said.
Mr. Naik said that subsequently in 1987 he was privileged to get an
opportunity to raise the issue of Goa’s statehood in the Lok Sabha and
the then Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, went out of way and responded
to concede the statehood there and there.
This was rare gesture on behalf of the Prime Minister of the country,
which Goa will always remembers, he said.
Goa was granted statehood on 30th May 1987. Konkani is the official
language of the State and the same has also been included in the 8th
Schedule of the constitution.
At the commencement of the session, the Chairman Shri Hamid Ansari made
special reference to the 50th Anniversary of Goa Celebration. A one
minute silence was observed to pay homage to those who laid down their
lives for the liberation of Goa.
Shantaram Naik
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