Nothing worthwhile happens without being triggered. The trigger happy
fingers kill people making it a waste of lives. Under-sea earthquakes of
substance triggers devastating Tsunamis. The snow-clad mountain sides need
a trigger for the avalanche to roll. Lightning triggers the thunder, and, a
well placed remark may trigger a tirade such as this.
Well, what am I talking about? Let us say a good friend of mine triggered
this reaction in me today when he, in all sincerity, passed a remark when
engaged in leisure talk about 2017 Goa Legislative Elections. "But Florian"
he said, "Nobody wants to vote for Goa Su-Raj Party"
I grew up to my adolescence during the Portuguese regime. My dad did not
care much for the Portuguese, he being a Sailor and having had umpteen
problems coming home and joining back. At times he even had to cross
dangerous rivers on make-shift banana trunk rafts with the croc's jaws not
to far off. But I and my elder brother did not think it proper for him to
brain-wash my activist mother to vote for SHIUM, the Bandodkar's MG 'LION'
in the hotly contested GOA'S OPINION POLL. His catch-line was " What do you
see on your Rupee note? Is it not the 'SHIUM?" Whow! Could anyone argue on
that one? Boys from our village who were all for UGP's 'Hand' would taunt
us, and to be frank, we had to swallow hard. But then we were accepted
into the gang running around with the 'Hand'. Our worst moments were to see
our dad cursing the BATKARS (meaning Jack De Sequeiras) immediately after
the results. But then the change of mind and soul would come soon, when, in
an agitation, he had to bear the lathis of Bandodkar's Police on his back
and go hungry for the night in the prison cell. From then on, the Shium had
miraculously vanished from the rupee note, to our extreme delight.
I grew up seeing injustice everywhere, rogues getting elevated to Freedom
Fighters and to pensions, law and order deteriorating, crooks coming out
from everywhere like the worms from the woodwork, plain and simple
governance going to dogs in a dog eat dog situation. The worst thing for me
was to learn how to bribe in order to get my work done. The classic example
was me bribing the Assistant Electrical Engineer to drop a few electrical
poles and wires for a 3 phase connection for the setting up of my younger
brother's Small Scale Industry in Moira with a litter bottle of JW Black,
not quietly in the back-room but openly on his office desk in full view of
others. The next best thing that I have done is to bribe the Parish Priest
with a 'SHOUTO',[ a sizeable 'mullet fish] just to have him sign away a
small piece of Church property to house the village landless under Indira
Awas Yojna scheme.
My first real fight with injustice was the fight with 'Loud Music Noise
(funnel speakers galore) pollution 24 x 365 days in my area. My frustration
with the longish fight with the authorities took me to the High Court in a
Suo Motto WP 97 of 1997. Thereafter to date 7 have followed with 2 ongoing.
Am I a tired man? You bet.
I have found out in this long drawn fight to get justice is that justice is
difficult to come by. Unless. Or..Until?
Yes, until, a 'system' of justice prevails. My first PIL lead to the
formation of GEAG [Goa Environmental Action Group]. But then realization
dawned on me that NGO's taking on the powerful governments was a joke. NGOs
are thriving, more and more are being set up by the day. But the shit that
flows down due to mal-governance or one-eyed governance does not stop but
increases by the day and the NGOs have their hands full in cleaning it up.
To me it seemed that NGOs are begging the powers that be to send more shit
down their way so they can grow fat cleaning it. That is when, Sardinha gave
me the opportunity ( in 1999) to qualify from NGO status to the political
status. Voila' .. Goa Su-Raj Party.
You give me a successful straight guy and I shall give you, what? Onassis?
Dirubhai Ambani? His two sons? JRD Tata?. Rajiv Gandhi? Would these guys be
at the top without cutting corners? How about Jesus Christ? Would he be at
all crucified with 3 nails ( instead of 4) if he was not strait? Who would
want to vote for Goa Su-Raj Party which would want to clean up, I mean,
really clean up the Augean stables? No chance of you scratching my back
when I refuse to scratch yours. Is there, now?
Who would want to vote for Goa Su-Raj Party when Narvekars, Ravi Naiks,
Ranes, Sirodkars, Godinhos, Alemaos Agnel Fernandes' of Candolim and very
many others would waste themselves behind bars? Don't we want to garland
them while they are living and garland them when they die, through their
statues? Don't we pee in our pants when we hear their names or read about
them in our unworthy newspapers?
The only consolation for me will be that this Goa Su-Raj Party will have
survived a terrible terrible saffron infiltration but still kept its head
up for years together without folding up or being gobbled. It would be a
record that this straight little Goa's own REGIONAL party after UGP, MGP,
GLP, UGDP, SGF, GVP et al will have remained intact and immaculate even if
no one did really want to vote for it. It will shine like a shining star in
Madame
Tussauds, London, some day in history, perhaps.
Today, we have again honoured a real Goan Fighter of real Goan Causes who
was dear to us, more specifically dear to GOA. But the glory was given away
at the very last moment to none other than the enemy of Goa, rather a WOLF,
who parades in sheep skin to fool Goans. And our dear Goans are falling for
it over the top?? Only time will tell.
In deed, nobody will want to vote for Goa Su-Raj Party. And just as well.
Let us all join hands to vote the WOLVES to power so that they may feast on
our posterity with relish if one is left behind to call it GOAN-- that is.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
www.gragoa.com
