Dr. Jack de Sequeira: Deemed Father of Opinion Poll
STEPHEN DIAS DONA PAULA Dear Raj Narain Editor Goan Observer Request to publish. Best regards Stephen 6.2.2018 The raging debate surrounding the installation of the statue of Dr. Jack de Sequeira at the Assembly Complex at Porvorim, has taken an ugly turn with even leaders like Uday Bhembre stating that there were many groups that fought the Opinion Poll. Is it not a fact that Dr. Jack de Sequeira was the Leader of the Opposition and that Dayanand Bandodkar who was the Chief Minister then had wanted the matter about the merger to be voted in the Assembly where the MGP had a comfortable majority? What would have happened if the voting in the Assembly had then taken place and merger with Maharashtra would have happened? Would the 40 MLAs including the CM, Ministers and MLAs would have been representing Goa Assembly? Why is that the MLAs are not unanimous in getting the statue of Dr. Jack de Sequeira installed in the Assembly Complex as the Father of the Opinion Poll? For the sake history it may be emphasized that many leaders in India were involved in the Freedom movement in India, including amongst many other Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Sorojini Naidu, Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bhagat Singa, Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak and many, many others. Still all of them did not oppose when Mahatma Gandhi was selected as the Father of the Nation and so today Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation. Why do our 40 MLAs now do not realize that Dr. Jack de Sequeira should be given that honour for having contributed greatly to the Opinion Poll. The 40 MLAs should bow down their heads in gratitude to Dr. Jack de Sequeira for his yeoman contribution towards the Opinion Poll which was the cornerstone in Goa today having become a state in the Indian union. END Sent from my Samsung device