GOA PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY Hotel Mandovi - 16-06-08
A written address to the Assembly AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF TWO ORGANIZATIONS - GOA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION GROUP [GEAG] & GOA SU-RAJ PARTY [GSRP] FIRSTLY, I CONGRATULATE RAJAN PARIKAR AND SOTER D'SOUZA (PEACEFUL SOCIETY) FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING FOR GOA. I CONSIDER THEM THE GOAN PATRIOTS, THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS WITHOUT A TITLE OR THE PENSION. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SKEPTICAL OF RAJAN'S INVOLVEMENT ESPECIALY, PERHAPS BECAUSE OF HIS FAMILY NAME WHICH PROBABLY BRINGS OUT THE BILE IN SOME. AS A CRUSADER FOR A CLEAN AND UNCORRUPT GOA MYSELF, WHILE I THANK RAJAN FOR HIS PRECIOUS TIME GIVEN TO GOA, I URGE HIM TO KEEP ON DOING WHAT HE IS DOING. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT GOA AND GOANS WILL BENEFIT FROM HIS EFFORTS BOTH IN THE SHORT AND THE LONG RUN. - Thank you Rajan/Soter. NEXT, I WANT TO DRAW THE KIND ATTENTION OF THIS ASSEMBLY TO TODAY'S WRITE-UP IN THE 'HERALD' UNDER O-PINIONATED - ' THE LEMMING SYNDROME' BY, JOHN ERIC GOMES. I SAY CHEERS TO HIM BECAUSE HE HAS SAVED ME THE TROUBLE OF SAYING THESE THINGS. BECAUSE, HE HAS SAID IT ALL, AND MORE FORECEFULLY, TOO. GOA, UNDOUBTEDLY, NEEDS A ' SYSTEM CHANGE' IN THE WAY OUR GOVERNANCE IS HANDLED SINCE 1961. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER HANDLED IF IT WAS LEFT IN THE HANDS OF WAITERS, VALETS, COOKS AND BUTLERS. IF WE CANNOT EXPECT THE RAPE OF GOA WITH THIS 'NO SYSTEM GOVERNANCE' THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN . IT IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT GOANS ARE TIRED AND SICK OF COMING ON THE STREETS MUCH TOO OFTEN. IT IS TIME TO BRING IN A CLEAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE THROUGH PARTICIPATORY DEMOCARCY, AN ASSET TO GOA'S INTELLIGENT AND LITERATE POPULATION, NOT ONLY IN GOA BUT SPREAD OUT OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD, BY FORCEFULLY EJECTING THE PURELY SELFISHLY REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY THAT HAS FAILED AND IS FAILING GOA AND GOANS. AND FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT: 1. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY ENDS THE DAY THE ELECTION RESULTS ARE DECLARED. 2.. MINERAL ORES DEPOSITS OF GOA ARE GOD GIVEN GIFT TO GOA AND GOANS. IF BENEFITS OF ITS EXPLOITATION DO NOT REACH THE PEOPLE OF GOA AND INSTEAD MAKES THEIR LIVES MISERABLE, LET IT LIE THERE AS IT IS, BURIED AND UNTOUCHED WHETHER THE STATE OR THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS LIKE IT OR NOT. floriano goasuraj Note: Due to the time allotted to speak was just under two minutes the above was improvised . Nevertheless the message has been delivered most effectively. The Assembly was attended to capacity with Hema Sardessai, Remo in attendence and Wendell Rodricks represented through a read message.
