In the death of former Health Minister Dr. Suresh Amonkar Goa has lost a gentleman politician. I will miss a dear friend of many decades. Recollect having first met Dr Amonkar in 1979 during that student agitation for 50% bus concession. Over the years we gelled well despite me being eight years younger.
A very caring Doctor he always was and even as a politician Dr. Suresh Amonkar led a very simple, modest and humble life. He belonged to a genre of politicians with qualities of head and heart who cannot survive in today’s grubby political turf. Today a politician has to be thick skinned and a hypocrite to the core. He has to be ready to bend and break all the rules even during this Pandemic to survive just as is being done by the current politicians in power. Politics is no longer a mission, not even an honest vocation. It has now been reduced to a scoundrel’s last resort. It has become a merciless business, with morals and morals twisted beyond recognition, thrown to the winds or long buried deep in the slush of ignorance and thuggery. A few of Dr Suresh Amonkar’s tribe of politicians are still around and will be remembered for the good they have done for Goa. About the rest and in particular the current bunch of politicians who have been leading and steering Goa down the tube there will even be no obituary to write. Posterity will never forgive them for their selfish role in the irreparable damage and destruction of what was once a beautiful Goa, the Paradise of the East. Dr Suresh Amonkar who was very modest and outspoken with an extremely secular outlook over the last few years had severed all ties with the BJP. May the soul of our dear departed friend Dr. Suresh Amonkar rest in eternal peace. 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