Hats off to all the guys who attended the GRA meeting. You showed to the rest of the Goans that there are people who are ready to walk the talk. Those brave hearts showed to rest of the Goans they cannot be bought for few rupees , they care Goa more then their Jobs and comforts of their homes. They will not stay back at home and bad mouth the good work of GRA activist. While these few brave heart toiled hard to make this event a great success, there were other who where too busy writing/acting against the GRA. I humbly request those sitting on the fence, if cannot not be a part of GRA its fine, but do stop mongering about GRA and its motives. If you cannot be support and be part of GRA in its endure to wipeout the ills then please keep your thoughts and philosophies to yourself. GRA need doers not spectators. Some raised question WHO ARE THE RAKHONDARS OF GOA? Who is behind RAKHONDARS? Who financed RAKHONDARS? Why that banner reading "GIVE US LAND TO BURY OUR DEAD IN NORTH AND SOUTH GOA."? Why the need for TWO burial grounds? So who is asking for two burial grounds from a GRA platform? Who or what needs to be buried?? What his current ecclesiatical status, celibate or celebrated batchelorhood?
Every honest Goan is Rakhondar. GRA is not about the people behind it but it is about people with it. Thank to JoeGoaUk we did see Goan Rakhondar's in thousands. More will join but what is perhaps haunting them is the ghost of GBA. BTW, which idiot proposed Goa Bachayo Andolan? Hindiwala from Dehli for sure. Many NRI's have contributed to GRA's. I do not see why a non-contributor should have access to account book of GRA. If the muslims demand burial ground, what is wrong in it? Did we not have Muslims long before Portuguese came to Goa? Is it not that a dead (Christian, Muslim and Hindus) deserve a resting place in Goa? Don't we have Christian cemeteries in the vicinity of residential areas? Its time to stop being skeptical and support the GRA. ( GRA is you and me). The time is come to burry the past and work for the better future of Goans by Goans. Noman tuka Goa! Agnelo Pinheiro
