Goans Have Voted For A Change
I will win from any constituency in Goa was the pompous avowal of Churchill
Alemao not too long ago, as though Goa was his footstool and Goans were his
slaves. Arrogance certainly has no place in society and South Goans have shown
their displeasure for the high and might Alemao family raj. The two senior
Alemaos were veteran senior politicians who wielded much muscle and money power
to have their way at will, in Goan politics for a long time, with them around
the CM's chair was never secure, it always rocked violently. The two junior
Alemaos who were thrust in to the quagmire of Goan politics, projected as
dynamic social workers whose dynamism was dynamically lost in the eyes of Goans
and now become mere devastated mortals.
South Goans have spoken and the verdict is there for everyone to see, the
message is loud and clear, we just cannot be taken for granted. In the most
recent past Oscar Fernandes and his contemporaries where flaunting the
winnability and family raj formula from roof tops, now truth has prevailed and
hype has disintegrated into an unhealthy organic residue.
Congress has had its worse ever defeat since it set foot in Goa and it is
certainly the high handedness of its political leaders both in Goa and Delhi
that is responsible for this debacle. It is said that "you could even fool some
people all the time but not all the people all the time". The arrogance of the
Congress has indeed caught up with them. There are just a few Congress
survivors in South Goa, which was a Congress bastion for a number of decades.
The Alemaos have been trashed 4-0 and it could well have been 11-0 if there
were that many in the fray. The ruble of the Alemao domain does not point to
the end of family raj in Goa, as there some remnants still going strong and
some still hanging around. Yes it can be termed as the end of the Alemaos but
not the end of family raj. The Madkaikars, the Dhavikars, the Monserrates and
the Ranes are still tangent reminders that the family raj is still up and
kicking in Goa.
There is no doubt that Goans have voted for a change and as expected by most,
though not fully welcome by some, the BJP is all set to form the next
government in Goa, my congratulations and best wishes to Parrikar and the BJP
for winning the Goa Assembly election. We, as humans must learn from our own
mistakes as well as those of the others. I sure hope Parrikar and Co. will not
venture or transgress into the same old dangerous unhealthy territory that they
had ventured into the last time round, nor the one that the Congress took
liberty to venture into.
Goans have given a mandate, it may be pro BJP or it may be anti Congress but
mandate none the less and I sure hope Goa and Goans will not have to go through
the same appalling ignominy as the one we have just passed through. My message
to Parrikar is, from hereon Goa is yours to loose and do not serve it to the
Congress on a platter, like they did. Prove that you are worthy of the faith
that Goans have put in you because by the next election Churchill could well be
a double graduate and Babush Monserrate a Phd.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
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