Dear Vijai, I wrote to you last year after your grand betrayal of Goa and Goans on 11th March 2017. You did not care to reply but as a true Goenkar, I humbly write to you once again, a year later on 2018 Easter Sunday with a heavy heart, a very heavy heart indeed! But, I have no choice … Having once been your very close friend, in speaking out I may be hurting you, your two MLAs Jayesh Salgaonkar, Vinod Paliencar and our common friend Rohan Khaunte, but by maintaining silence I would be hurting thousands of Goans across Goa and also failing in my duty to stand up for something that is intrinsically wrong.
The people of Goa had thought and hoped that you were the future of Goa. They were all for your promised : Goem, Goenkar & Goenkarponn. In 2017 they supported you thinking that you were a beacon of hope to fight the Corruption, nepotism and the U turns of the BJP. Goans were also very upset with the Congress for the manner you were then ill-treated. I had myself publicly condemned the Congress for it. But last March the audacity in which you betrayed your Goem, you shocked every Goenkar, and you chose to selfishly forsake your very own Goenkarponn. In the lightning speed in which you selfishly embraced the BJP overnight, you committed the mother of all U turns. You disgraced yourself, your family, your Constituency and most importantly your Goa. The great Goan and your uncle, the late Ravindra bab Kelekar and your late dear sister our great poet Madhavi must have rolled in heavenly abode over the manner you so rashly and cunningly took Goa and Goans for a ride. You cannot and will never ever be trusted by Goans again. Even by your now New York parked idol Manohar Gopalkrishna Parrikar, who as he always does, will treat you as a purchasable commodity to be used and disposed off. I am infact stunned that you dared trust Manohar Parrikar, someone who had publicly spewed very nasty venom against you and even tried his best to implicate and arrest you in that Louis Berger case. You, Jayesh Salgaonkar, Vinod Paliencar and Rohan Khaunte have chosen to face the public wrath and condemnation for the rest of your lives. Your’ll have deeply hurt every Goan. But despite your betrayal, Goa will overcome and survive to see Goem, Goenkar and Goenkarponn. Let me leave you with those worthy words of Billy Graham, “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost”. Your very now heartbroken and once great well-wisher, Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com