Re: [Goanet] Justice for Sportspersons
Dear Agnelo, I do what is in my capacity to do. In my time I have met many a persons who vibe for Goa, but I must say that I do not recollect those faces. As I have said umpteen times, I shall not volunteer to roast myself of the hot tarred road as the earth-worm to save Goa. No siree! But I shall do everything that I am able to do in the capacity to do to save Goa after I have satisfactorily saved myself and my immediate family from disaster. That is why I have been saying, very loud and clear, that I shall even, if need be, work with the BJP (read NOT RSS-BJP) to defeat each and every candidate of the Congress Party in Goa. Thank you Agnelo for having said what you have said. They say Oil can never be suppressed. It always floats on top to suffocate the rest. So it is with Suzanne, whom I am yet to meet face to face, though her brother was my class-mate in college. floriano goasuraj ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Justice for Sportspersons
JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS. Floriano, I have read you response to Mr. Veronica's post. I, most respectfully, support the causes you have undertaken as regards Justice for Sportspersons. As for Dr. Susana de Sousa, this is the second time this highly motivated personality has had to undergo this type of obnoxious behaviour from corrupt politicians who don't even know what Sport is all about. I know Dr. de Sousa personally, and I congratulate her for also winning this second round of harassment. She has always been a winner, and will always remain so. Although you may not remember, I have met you at the very first NRI Convention at the Menezes Braganza Hall several years ago. I wished you well, and still keep that wish alive. I am not a politically opportunist person, I have no connections with politics. But your fights for justice and the rights in society is what keeps my hope and support for your party alive. I read all your posts intently, and must admit, you have been doing great for Goa and Goans in general with your high level of honesty and integrity. Thank you Floriano, and I thank God for giving you to Goa and Goans. Best of everything Agnelo Fernandes ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS.
JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS. This is in reply to Floriano Lobo goasuraj Pratima Gaonkar. (goasuraj) write up on 29.10.06 in response to my article on the suicides of sportspersons Angela Gomes and Pratima Gaumkar and harassment to Dr. Susane D'Souza by Goa Sports Minister Maddkaikar. Florian I highly appreciate your comments on the said subject. I find in you and your party someone fighting for the cause of Goa and Goans dedicatedly. This I have seen with my own eyes. Your party is not like any other party in Goa that looks only for the election gains. You take up causes of public interest. I know your efforts to raise funds for Pratima's poor mother and while you were raising funds for her, Maddkaikar and others were sleeping in Goa. What have they done for the poor family members of Pratima? Why till now the person who has driven Pratima to commit suicide is not brought to trial? Where are Madkaikar and Congress Party? You said your Party will revive the cases into the deaths of Pratima Gaonkar and Angela Gomes and bring the culprits to book. This is a promise the Party makes to Sports loving Goa and Goans. I and innumerable friends of mine support you and your party on this subject and if necessary I will stand by you on this issue. The two suicides of Angela Gomes and of Pratima Gaumkar must be probed and guilty not only exposed but also punished... COMMENTS: Dear Mr. Veronica, We at goasuraj appreciate the mighty trust you have in our party. And we shall see to it that this trust is not found wanting, ever. They say, in a forest of weeds, brambles and other useless trees, it is possible to find a lone tree, which some day, some time someone will be appreciated for its worth and nurtured, by cutting away the wild creepers and growth that is chocking it. Goasuraj is like that lone tree. At the moment, it is surrounded by self-seeking trash. But there will be more persons like you who will come to stand by it, in times to come. As you have said, we shall be taking on the corrupt MLA of Aldona, Dayanand Narvekar in the coming elections ( his latest unearthed scam is the IT Park, Dona Paula, which he has sought to gift to his sister and brother-in-law in Mumbai . A a PIL in this matter is in the offing). The party's declaration to this effect will be made on 11th November, 2006, at Manvin's Hotel, Panjim, where we shall be releasing the Su-Raj Production's 'first' political awarebess movie ' NAKA TUM DUSRE PAUT' . The VCDs will be available at V.P. Sinari, Panjim for Rs. 125/-. The movie has been sponsored by a good heart and it is based on the Goa Su-Raj Election 2007 campaign dialogue the party has come out with which is available to be downloaded on www.goasu-raj.org . Along with the Aldona candidate, the party intends declaring a couple of other candidates. Work in this direction is ongoing. Once again, thank you for your trust in us. Apart from not disappointing persons of good faith like you, we shall not dissapoint ourselves, ones who have come up to lock horns with the politically corrupt, not only in Goa but also in the Union of India. As regards Pratima Gaokar, we did do something that we thought we should do for her family. Apart from that, contrary to what some people believe, we are not in the management of the SAG nor at the wheel of governance. Let the elected government of the people do what the people want done, plus more. We have many other things to look at. But as promised, we shall look back to put things on record when we are in the saddle and nobody should doubt it. The same goes for Angela Gomes. However, our very sincere advice to the parents and true guardians of young Ivana Furtado is that they should be very careful of wolfs in sheep's clothing, to protect the child, to let her become what she will become, at her own space and time, and to be her protectors always, so that none of the things that have happened to Pratima Gaokar and Angela Gomes repeat with her. We wish little Ivana Furtado well. goasuraj ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS
Dears, Was it really necessary for Angela Gomes to die for us to remember Pratima Gaokar?? How many persons in goa can put thier hand on their conscience and honestly say that they have tried to do justice to the memory of Pratima Gaokar and see that others are not treated the same shabby way? Whether it is sports or employment or CRZ violations, we have two sets of standards: one for the rich or well connected and the other for the poor. This, my friends, is Goa. You can bet your last rupee that Angela Gomes and Pratima Gaokar will be promptly forgotten by all the politicians, and wannabe politicians, after the next Goa Assembly elections. Viva Goa. Miguel ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS.
JUSTICE FOR SPORTSPERSONS. This is in reply to Floriano Lobo goasuraj Pratima Gaonkar. (goasuraj) write up on 29.10.06 in response to my article on the suicides of sportspersons Angela Gomes and Pratima Gaumkar and harassment to Dr. Susane DSouza by Goa Sports Minister Maddkaikar. Florian I highly appreciate your comments on the said subject. I find in you and your party someone fighting for the cause of Goa and Goans dedicatedly. This I have seen with my own eyes. Your party is not like any other party in Goa that looks only for the election gains. You take up causes of public interest. I know your efforts to raise funds for Pratimas poor mother and while you were raising funds for her, Maddkaikar and others were sleeping in Goa. What have they done for the poor family members of Pratima? Why till now the person who has driven Pratima to commit suicide is not brought to trial? Where are Madkaikar and Congress Party? You said your Party will revive the cases into the deaths of Pratima Gaonkar and Angela Gomes and bring the culprits to book. This is a promise the Party makes to Sports loving Goa and Goans. I and innumerable friends of mine support you and your party on this subject and if necessary I will stand by you on this issue. The two suicides of Angela Gomes and of Pratima Gaumkar must be probed and guilty not only exposed but also punished. About Dr. Susane DSouza, she was my colleague at St. Xaviers College Mapusa for 4 years and also at Post Graduate Center Panjim. Besides a very good student throughout her academic career, she was an outstanding sportsperson and was a champion athlete in High Jump. She did very well even at All India level. She played number of games and participated in many athletics events at School, College, Goa and National levels. She possessed high moral character and was a disciplined girl during those days maintaining her high integrity. Madkaikar has no reason to punish her because Dr. Susane will not merit any such action from her superiors because of her high morals and other high grade characteristics. She has devoted so much of her youthful life for the cause of Goan sports and for such a person to punish in this way is a crime. SAG and Madkaikar will have to answer this question during the election time which is due shortly. I have already spoken to many of the people in Madkaikars constituency and they have also vowed to make this issue during the election time. I will also speak to Nirmala Sawant to make this as an election issue during the forthcoming election. Nirmala Sawant was an opponent of Mudkaikar during the last election. Three days back I called Tiatrist William de Curtorim to tell him to sing another song hitting hard Madkaikar for being revengeful towards Dr. Susane. Earlier in one song William praised Madkaikar and made him unnecessarily popular. Not only Dr. Susane but her great father Joviniano and her younger sister Yolanda brought laurels to Goa and Goans thru sports. Her father was once one of the top Goan footballers in Goa and also in Bombay while playing for Tatas. Arpora School during those days rarely produced such a gigantic and brilliant athlete and footballer. He was the pride of Arpora School then. His was one of the photos adorned the Display Wall of Arpora School during those days. Only the photos of outstanding sportsmen of Arpora School were displayed that time. Yolanda Dr. Susanes younger sister was also a good athlete and a top footballer representing Goa and even captaining Goan team. Dr. Susanes family members have given so much for the cause of Goan sports and to treat such a person shabbily by Madkaikar is like committing a crime which should not go unforgiven. I thought people from Calangute will raise this issue forcefully in Goa when their own daughter was treated shabbily by Madkaikar but surprised no saner voice came out from anyone in Calangute. Earlier Calangute was known to raise its voice for justice but now no, because the villagers of those days fighting for justice are no more in that village now, it looks. Florian Bab you said in your reply that Needless to say that the Party is distressed at the way Dr. Suzane D'Souza has been humiliated at the hands of the SAG and now the untimely death of Angela Gomes. That Dr. Suzane D'Souza had to knock at the doors of the High Court of Bombay at Goa to rectify the injustice over her emoluments is another thing altogether. Who are these guys who treat our persevering Goan athletes in this manner? The people of Goa and largely the sporting fraternity in Goa must make it a point to read the Chapter X (at Page 62) of the Party's ROAD MAP FOR GOA under Sports Leisure. Florian Bab, I have read your Road Map for Goa and am sure you will fight for justice not only to Dr. Susane, Angela Gomes and Pratima Gaumkar but also to all other such sportspersons. Now coming to young Goan
