http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=6404&boxid=1406953&uid=&dat=10/24/2012
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.... Parrikar was the last hope for many a
graft-fatigued Goan. What happened?
To,
The Editor,
OHeraldo
Panjim Goa.
Dear Mr. Ishan Joshi,
At the outset, let me say that the above is a great write-up. However,
there are some questions that we need to ask you considering that O Heraldo
is a household name for Goa and us Goans, irrespective of whether you may
be a new addition to this name.
When you say " .. Parrikar was the last hope for many a graft-fatigued Goan"
, pray on what basis did you come to that conclusion?. You mean to say that
without Parrikar, Goa is doomed? That he is the one and only 'Jesus
Christ' that will have saved the world of Goans?, a Moses that will have
lead Goans to safety and prosperity? When you are putting words into the
mouths of thousands of Goans through your writings, we like to think that
you have done your homework well. Believe you me. No one is indispensible as
you make Parrikar to be in this write-up. On the contrary Mr. Manohar
Parrikar has proved himself to be the Judas for Goa.
Goa, for your kind information, is not going to go to hell if one IIT'an
Mr. Parrikar is not around. Goa cannot be led through U-turns and
controversies. It is a well known fact that Manohar Parrikar is a man who
is know-all unto himself and a one man administrative show, a humpty -dumpty
having been seated on the wall and who has the penchant to fall. Yes, he
has been given a last chance to prove himself because he went on his knees,
so to speak, a begging, to be forgiven for his past lapses, his communal
agenda having been exposed in his last tenure, especially of loading the
Goa's Police force with RSS-BJP cadres, and because the then ruling
Congress had put it's own feet in it's mouth, thereby taking themselves out
as Goa's rulers. Others, small fries like us, who do not lack
administrative and/or management skills and who do not accept bank-rolling
by Mining Barons are vulnerable when the electioneering tempo is built on
hundreds of ill-gotten crores. Pray, where is the competition?. Goans
have forgiven Parrikar for his past arrogance and his past mistakes only
because they did not want the Congress anymore, and not because Parrikar's
previous rule was a rule of King Solomon. They say that a pipe cannot
straighten the dog's tail. Likewise, Parrikar is set in his ways. His
arrogance, his sky high ego and most importantly, his inability to accept
good advice is his natural down-fall. In fact he is a know all, ONE EYED
KING OF THE BLIND AND SYCOPHANTS. One look at how he is holding the leash of
his Cabinet colleagues will tell you the sorry story. Governance cannot be
dished out on AD-HOC and populous basis . Governance must be pre-planned
and written down so that free hand is given to every player to achieve the
intended goals.
Let me say this much about the ever complicated and 'free for all' mining
imbroglio that has left Goa in shambles, a beggar state instead of being
the richest state in the Union. The illegal mining free for all started with
Parrikar's rule in 2000 with his henchman Digamber Kamat being in control
of the mining as mines minister and Dy. CM. Parrikar knew everything as to
what was happening and what was to happen. Only his henchman saw it fit to
brush him aside by citing 'extreme suffocation' in the rank and file of the
BJP to join the coterie of the Congress' ALIBABAS.
Let me bring to your kind attention that, at the time when illegal mining
was getting out of hand, with Parrikar making a lot of noises as the
Chairman of PAC and Opposition leader, we are given to understand that a
meeting of all the mine owner's syndicate along with high ranking
politicians of the ruling as well as opposition was called for by a
religious head of Goa at a Mutt. And the edict that was passed at this meet
was for MINING IN GOA TO CONTINUE AT ALL COSTS. I do not need to spell the
names of who were attending this clandestine meet because you will have
guessed already. The illegal and legal mining pot has been satisfying all
excluding none.
Manohar Parrikar, being the Opposition leader and seemingly gunning for the
Congress on the mining issue, did sweet little to see that the venue for the
hearing of the Justice Shah Commission was objected to, the venue being a
paltry little conference hall at the Secretariat, Porvorim, insufficient to
accommodate a large number of anti-mining activists who were to descend for
the hearing, the hall which has no more than a hundred seating capacity.
That the pro mining lobby had packed the hall to the brim leaving no seat
for anyone at all especially the anti mining activists, was clear and has
also been reported by Justice Shah himself in his report. We know this
because the undersigned was the first one to speak to Justice Shah, as
reported in the Shah Commission Report without naming names. To add salt to
the raw wound , Parrikar sought to dilute the Shah Commission Report by
setting up a Committee headed by retired Justice RMS Khandeparkar to find
faults in the Report mainly to appease his benefactors, the mining barons,
which luckily got stamped out after the landmark Supreme Court Order for the
complete closure of mining in Goa, with Justice RMS Khandeparkar quietly
withdrawing, citing reasons that he was not informed about his heading the
committee. You must tell us if this is possible at all.
You are talking of SUSTAINABLE MINING when the whole world is up in arms
against mining continuing in Goa at all. Everyone, who was not connected
to the mining industry and has suffered the brunt of it wants that mining
should STOP completely once and for all so that the God given mineral riches
of Goa or whatever is left of it should be saved for POSTERITY and not go to
fatten the Central Government in Delhi and it's stooges in Goa, which
fattening has been taking place for the past 50 years since 1961, making it
very clear to Goans at large that the only interest that India had in Goa
was not to liberate Goans from the yolk of the Portuguese Colonial rule but
only to take it's place as Goa's Colonial Master, propagating falsehood to
the world at large that the Portuguese in Goa were indulging in mass
massacre of Goans, left right and center, and also trespassing into the
Indian territory. I am born and brought up in Goa, and at the time of
India's invasion of Goa, I was 15 years of age. I should know what was the
state of affairs in Goa at that time, whether Goans were being massacred or
not. We did not even know that there was going to be a war. It dawned on us
at the last minute, just 48 hours before the storming of Goa by the Indian
troops. The entire interest, therefore, was the mineral rich resources of
Goa. That is why Goa's pleas for Special Status has gone on deaf ears, even
after the shameless promises by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself have been
exposed by none other than late Adv. Bruto Da Costa in his epic letter to
him after the INVASION.
And I shall want to point out to you the following where you say this [on
Page 11] and ask you to tell us as to how you could have said this.
Quote
With all the preceding in place, revenue will surely come in again from
mining as will employment - but this time not only in the form of mega
profits for the mining companies and illegal jobs (including for outsiders),
respectively.
Unquote
Or do we believe that there is a typo here?
For your kind information, Manohar Parrikar is totally committed to the
mining lobby for whatever reasons you may attribute. Otherwise, he would
have initiated investigation of the operations conducted by GMOEA as an
unregistered body of Exporting Mine Owners. This is apparent when his
cabinet has fixed just 1 km as a buffer zone to protect sensitive areas of
Goa when his own Cabinet colleague and Minister for Environment and Forest
says that 2 km is a must. Besides, late Matanhy, whose birthday is
celebrated today was intent on 3 km buffer zone. Matanhy should be crying
tears of frustration wherever he is, we are sure. The GMOEA has already
started lobbying for less than 1 km buffer zone and we will not be surprised
at whose prompting these protests are being voiced. Therefore, we expect
another U-Turn on the anvil, shortly. We Goans are already aware that the
people are being asked to gherao the Congress' who is who to blame the
mining game on them, when Parrikar is much too involved in the illegal
mining conspiracy himself.
Again, to put you in the picture, Manohar Parrikar, in his last tenure
wanted to slap Anti-Naxalite preventive measures on Goa to discourage
anti-mining activists at the behest of the Mining Barons. One of your very
own predecessors was part of this conspiracy. For Manohar Parrikar's bad
luck the person he was trying to put behind bars happened to be a member of
our Party, Mr. Sebastian Rodrigues, from Siolim. Only this saved Sebastian
Rodrigues. However, it did not deter the mining barons to file a Rs. 500
Crore defamation law suit against Sebastian Rodrigues in the Kolkata High
Court through the said predecessor of yours.
http://www.sacw.net/article503.html
And last but not the least, let Goa look elsewhere for money, such as IT and
other avenues where Goans can find decent jobs, not as truck drivers and
petty tea stall owners. Let the loot of Rs. 35,000 crores be recovered from
the mining barons and their accomplices to rehabilitate the Goan people who
were dependent on Goa's much too exploited mining industry. And let the God
given mineral resources of Goa lie where they are buried and undisturbed
whether the Central Government or the Goa government likes it or not, for
Goa has not signed a pact with the INDIAN COLONIAL MASTERS that it will give
jobs and shelter to every out of work and shelterless INDIANS in Goa. Let
CHARITY BEGIN AT HOME.
Thank You.
for Goa Su-Raj Party
Sd/-
Floriano Lobo
Gen. Secretary & Spokesperson
173 Pirazona Moira Bardez Goa (403 507)
Telefax: 91 832 2470 223
Mobile: 9890470896 - 9422060347
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.goasu-raj.org
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contested by National Parties only AND/OR by a Federation of State
Regional Parties.
with a reciprocating understanding by the National Parties that the 'State
Elections' shall be the prerogative of State Registered Political Parties
only. Even then, and in the absence of such a ruling by the Election
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knowledgeable about India and its problems, as well as World affairs,
'STATESMEN/WOMEN' , to contest on it's 'TICKET' in the coming 2014
Parliamentary Elections. Let GOA endeavour to send two real Parliamentarians
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