The late Shri Dayanand Bandodkar of the Maharashtra Gomantak Party (MGP)
ruled Goa for a decade from 1963 to 1973. After his demise, his daughter
Smt. Shashikala Kakodkar took over the reins and she provided a stable
government for about seven years. She lost power when the MGP was defeated
in 1979 elections, when the United Goans Party (UGP) merged with the
Congress (I) Party and helped it form the first Congress Government in Goa!
The switch over marked the beginning of the tournament of politics and
engineered defections in Goa, which unfortunately continues to date. The
way things are going on now, it looks as though there may be another final
soon, and this time the contest could be between the North and the South
over tourism!
Post-liberation, if there was any alternative opposition outside the Goa
Legislative Assembly, it was the trio - Conception-Nelson-Anthony! Every
political party feared them karann te soglleank tastalet (because they
shaved off everybody!) They sang trios dressed in loose-fit bright-red
shirts an indication that they were as or more dangerous than red color!
The following trio was sung after Sidarth Bandodkar was mysteriously shot at
midnight at his sisters (Shashikalas) residence at Altinho while she was
in power, and when she began to court with Indira Gandhi at the Center after
she lost the 1979 elections. The MGP slogan while in power was: Hath
mhunnchem gath, MG-chi dorat patt (Hand means treachery, follow the MG
party). Anthony, in the second Chorus of the trio rightly questions
Shashikala: Atam to hath sang gho tum kiteak lenvta? (Tell us why you
are licking that hand now?) It is disgusting to witness a candidate
patronize a party which he/she has hated throughout his/her lifetime; no
wonder, Shashikala got lost into the oblivion! When defectors approach you
to vote for them, reject them; let them go to hell!
Those who did not witness the ostad (antagonist) trio on the stage, the
following lyrics of the song Porvorechi Mummy sung in a tiatro in Mapusa
in 1980 will give an idea of the trios might with which they publicly
criticized individuals and shook various governments in Goa. They were just
superb - open and blunt! Here are the lyrics of the song:
PORVORECHI MUMMY by the trio - Conception-Nelson-Anthony
Legend: Conception = C; Anthony = A; Nelson = N
I
C: Tegainim ami tharailelem motin, anik trio mhunnchenum mhunn tambdde
katin
N: Hem danger signal vaitt, hem ghalun zaiteank dilam fight, chintlelem
dhobiak
ghalun tem dovrunk mhunn kuxin
A: Punn ghalchench poddlem, batmi pavon hi hathin, ti aikon Goyem ek partid
poddla khontin
Ottra vorsanchem toddun golleantlem xinvachem bentin, Delhik pavli khuim
Porvorechi santin.
Chorus
C: Xaranim ghoranim, carranim barranim, aiz vochot thuimsor ho bobav poddla
N: Anjeachea rupan, lok mhunntat kallzan ghevn chikan, soitan vochon
Indirak
doddla
A: Meli mhunn tayi, eklo duknar sonvta gayi, ragan battli bhor pivon boroch
bhorla
Konn mhunntta bhavak marlolo far apleak bhogsonk zai mhunnon, casador
Congress pokxean bhitor sorla
II
C: Pratapsingh Muki Montri put tum xanno, zuzari put tum Paklo punn tum
ranno
N: Xanneponn uzar kor, tea casadorak sintid dhor, tumkaim nanch korit ticho
adinch modd konno
A: Kaidea Montri torno rosroxit tum chonno, to devchar koslea xingacho tem
tum
zanno
Zatye bab, tonddak rupnnem ghalun, bhitorlean tuka porot mevonk ieta khuim
re
saddiecho mono
Chorus
C: Hath mhunnchem gath, MG-chi dorat patt, pattlim utram tujim hea monan
govta
N: Kovoto moddla, dekun Sequeiran soddla, atam to Babu Naik ghevn bonvta
A: Porvorechea manam, vainguim bandinaka kanank, atam to hath sang gho tum
kiteak lenvta?
Tuvem MG party konnank sangon foddlea kai vincharunk, Moddkoi
lok hathik tel lavn bonvta
III
C: Goa, Damao, Diu, bangarachem toem, ottra vorsanchem oddlem tujer kaem
N: Tem kaem dor toddun, amdar nivllun haddun, aiz putanim tujea tuka rup
dilam
novem
A: Poir potrar vachun, porjen tondd kelem kaem, Vengurla, Malvann tenkovn
vhodd
kortat mhunn Goyem
Lokacheachi as soddat, amchem assam tem ghott dorat, tem amkam morosor
puro jevnk halovn paem
Chorus
C: Budhvont putanim, Goyem dilam tumchea hathanim, bulxeat sangta mhunnon
Porvorechi mummy
N: Opinion Poll that is our whole and sole, tetun kaim zavnk zainam subeij,
komi
A: Soglle porjechea navan, aiz hea Mapxenchea ganvan, tegui palkar than
tumkaim
sangtanv ami
Goyenche bhuem voilo ek fator zala mhunn aikot tor komi, zalear magir
tumchem samballat tumi
From Doms antique shelf,
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
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