People's Edit
Svatantriyapurti Diwas??
By: Adv. Antonio Lobo
Herald- 23 April, 2011
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The 'special' mention by the Rajya Sabha MP, Shantaram Naik, that December
19, 1961 should be celebrated as the day when India attained full
independence, is indicative of how much the Goan psyche has been affected by
the relentless propaganda since it's annexation on 19.12.61 by the Indian
army .
When will Goans realize that the word 'liberation' could have been attached
to that date only if India had followed up on the declaration solemnly made
by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru on June 4, 1961 at
the Congress Convention at Nagpur and I quote "Everyone wants Goa to become
free, but the question is asked whether India will extend its authority over
Goa against the wishes of the Goan people. My answer to that is No. If the
people of Goa minus the Portuguese Government deliberately wish to retain
their separate identity, I am not going to compel them into the Indian
Union. It will be entirely for the people of Goa to decide their future.
India's national interest demands only the removal of Portuguese rule from
Goa" Unquote.
This assurance that 'the people of Goa would decide their future' was not
followed up by the Indian Union, by holding a plebiscite, after the
Portuguese were driven out of Goa in 1961.
The Opinion Poll held in Goa in 1967 was not the choice that Jawaharlal
Nehru promised Goa. Goans were never given a choice to decide whether they
wanted a union with India or to be an independent country. Even the military
operation which annexed Goa, Damao & Diu to the Indian Union which was named
"Operation Vijay" was used by India in the 'Kargil' military action
against Pakistan. That this name meant so little to India that it could use
it again in it's minor war against Pakistan should have been an eye opener
to our nationalists.
Furthermore, independent India never considered Goa as being an integral
part of the Indian Union is a fact that seems to have escaped that same
class of 'blind' people that insist upon calling December 19 as the day of
Goa's liberation. That a demand has to be made by our so-called 'freedom
fighters' and now by an MP that the said date should be celebrated
throughout India' as its final and total liberation and that without any
demand or prompting from Goans, the Union of India did not, of its own
motion, consider it important enough to celebrate it as a national Indian
holiday, should have opened up those eyes that have been shut for so long
and make them look closely at what is taking place in Goa post 1961 and what
the future holds for Goa and the Goan posterity.
What are you talking about Shantaram Naik and how does your demand for
special status for Goa gel with this suggestion that you have made in the
Indian Parliament? To me it is absolutely contradictory!
COMMENTS:
It is very well understood that the decision that Goans did not deserve a
plebiscite for them to decided if Goa had to remain separate or join the
Indian Union was taken by the self-centered and mostly RSS and mergerite so
called Freedom Fighters who never were freedom fighters but remain Pension
Fighters to this day. This breed will have to pay heavily for what they
have done to Goa and Goans.
floriano
Goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
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