--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canada
Early Bird Discount Registration closes March 31, 2008 http://www.2008goanconvention.com/regform_print.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dears, Vinay Natekar should do some homework before he writes. Ravi Sitaram Naik was the Deputy CM in Manohar Parrikar's cabinet and a top shot in the BJP party [President, too, if I remember right]. He became bad the moment he left the BJP. He is a member of the BSNL ..the Bhandari Samaj Network Limited ....the vote bank that the BJP continues to woo through Shripad Naik. In today's posting Rajan Parrikar has stated his caste which, incidentally is the same as the other "Prabhu Parrikars" including Manohar bab, whom he ardently supports. So who is casteist dear Vinay? Digambar Kamat replaced Ravi Naik as the Minister No.2 in the Manohar-bab cabinet. Unfortunately, he also jumped the ship ...and became casteist? He is a GSB like manohar-bab, but of a superior ...and smarter ...gothra! He is a Sahaxtti [66] GSB of the likes of Mhalu Pai Vernekar of 1510 A.D. ...not a Xenvi or Shenoy or Xann-nav [96] GSB I agree that Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was a good adminitrator even while he was a dictator. I cannot say the same thing abour Manohar-bab during his SECOND TERM 2002-January 2005 because: 1. The malevolent and malicious superimposition of IFFI dates on dates for the Fama, Novenas and Feast of St.Francis Xavier [24 Noivember to 03 December] failed to diminish the fervour of the devout people who continue to come for the feast ...even on foot from Mumbai, Sawantwadi and Ratnagiri. 2. The placement of GSBs in key posts, specially the Horticulture Corporation to break the Muslim control of the vegetable trade in Goa through the much touted "Krishi Bazars" , flopped. The Vegetable Vendors Society [registered in 1967] approached the Panaji Bench of the Bombay High Court after a Krishi Bazar outlet was set up at Panaji's KTC bus stand and got a judicial injunction in its favour. That put paid to the "conversion" of the vegetable trade. [To his credit, Digamber Kamat is trying out the same strategy now. Old habits die hard. There is lobbying for the Goa Board of Education post right now.] 3. The surreptitious distribution, in person through ADEIs and other officers of the Education Dept., of the VCD entitled GOA FREEDOM STRUGGLE [with script scrutinized by a committee headed by a Communist with a Catholic-sounding name, Comrade Flaviano Dias] on 18 December, 2004 to schools throughout Goa with ORAL instructions to screen it after flag hoisting on Goa Liberation Day 19 Dec. bombed, and bombed badly. It is another matter that he has REFUSED to admit it as a MISTAKE and calls it an oversight or misunderstanding [it was only meant to be kept in the school libraries for reference for history projects] when it was given high priority for distribution on 18 December, 2004, by the Education Minister [the self-same Manohar bab] WITHOUT taking his cabinet colleagues into confidence [I gave his Tourism Minister, Matanhy Saldanha, a copy to see for himself what his CM was doing]. It is anmother matter that the land conversion for the HARA project in St.Cruz and many other projects took place ... allegedly for a hefty price...when Mr. Prakash Fadte was the TCP Minister during the FIRST TERM of Manohar-bab as CM. It is still another matter that the BJP was responsible for the defeat of Prakash to GSB Harish Zantye [of the Congress Party], who could not be given a BJP nomination because Prakash, an incumbent minister, pre-empted it by filing his nomination first. Vinay needs to do a lot of homework if he wants to post on Goanet. This humbug he can pop off elsewhere among his friends. Perhaps, Rajan Parrikar will buy it ...at a discount! Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:04:18 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Come on Ravi....your reputation is our reputation Vinay Natekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1: a vast section of our Goan voters are ignorant, corrupt and casteist. 2: This is one of the reason why we vote the current vacuous politicians in ruling Congress consistently in spite of knowing that they are fraud and criminals. 3: So it is the time we should consider of bringing back a able administrator like Parrikar to power forgetting our religious and caste differences for the development of Goa. == jc's response: re 1: Is Mr. Natekar telling us that those who do not vote for the BJP are "ignorant, corrupt and casteist" ? re 2: Who are these "current vacuous politicians in ruling Congress" ... and were they in the BJP at any time in the past? re 3: I fully agree that Manohar Parrikar would be able to adminster Goa better than the present dispensation is allowed to. I suggest that Manohar Parrikar is the one who forgot to forget 'our religious and caste differences for the development of Goa' ....... enough to fund that horribly divisive and bogus VideoCD. BTW: after all, even Antonio Oliveira Salazar was initially - an able administrator! sincerely jc -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.