[Goanet] secularism v/s communalism
How many of us have visited Gujerat and seen what Modi has done for the state ? how many has been to the bank and seen secular ministers' bank accounts and properties ? People sit at the chai shop or bar and talk. Our tongue can wag like dog's tail and there is no limit. How many of our priests have accounts in foreign lands and explain how they can manage to buy foreign ticket every year or as who is sponsering them ? let both ministers, mlas , and religious be honest to give us idea.
Re: [Goanet] secularism v/s communalism
Frankly speaking, Ana Maria, I will sum up your query in just one sentence with no offence intended to anyone. As a matter of fact, I had said this to none other than Surendra Furtado when he told me that he has lest NCP and joined Congress, some time ago. GIVE THEM HONEY, GIVE THEM MALAI, GIVE THEM THE BEST. BUT NO!. GUAI'LE MUS GUACHE'RUCH BOSTAT. In case you have problem to discifer this, it means: Bluebottle flies will settle on shit only, and nothing else, even if it was Honey. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 - Original Message - From: Ana Maria Fernandes amferns_n...@hotmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 10:19 PM Subject: [Goanet] secularism v/s communalism How many of us have visited Gujerat and seen what Modi has done for the state ? how many has been to the bank and seen secular ministers' bank accounts and properties ? People sit at the chai shop or bar and talk. Our tongue can wag like dog's tail and there is no limit. How many of our priests have accounts in foreign lands and explain how they can manage to buy foreign ticket every year or as who is sponsering them ? let both ministers, mlas , and religious be honest to give us idea. = --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
[Goanet] Secularism v/s Communalism
The secular fundamentalism and bigotry is as much responsible for vitiating the communal atmosphere. It is redefining secularism in a manner that any view at variance is stigmatized as manifestation of majority communalism. Are we then witnessing the emergence of secular fascism ? There is no plausible answer as to how The BJP is communal and others secular. Is being with BJP is communal and being with Congress secular ? Take example of our Goan standard of secularism. In last elections Mathany Saldhana sided with BJP. Who does he become ? A secular or communal ? There are so many catholic personalities with BJP like Francisco D’souza, Aires Rodriguez, Dr. Wilfred Mesquita etc. Will you term them as communalists ? If Being with BJP is communal then Digambar Kamat who was with BJP as Power minister a communal ? and after he defected to Congress is he baptized now as secular ? Election results at a given time and place have no permanent immutable validity. Most of the times demagogues and despots successfully manage to manipulate the will of the people by using either muscle power or money earned by corruption and scandalous mode eg. Babush Monseratte, Mauvin Godhino, Micky Pacheco, Dayanand Narvekar etc. just to name a few. Overwhelming majority of Goan hindus are secular and have elected candidates either based on their merits or for own personal gains or in gratitude for favors obtained from such candidates irrespective of candidate’s party affiliation or religion. Hindu majority constituencies have often elected non Hindus like Francis D’souza from Mapusa or Isidore Fernandes from Poinginim where as there is no record of any Hindu candidate winning from predominantly catholic constituencies specially in Salcette on non Congress ticket. After liberation , elections were fought basically by two regional parties MGP and UGP. After losing opinion poll the MGP abandoned the pro merger agenda. Hindus sided with MGP which was headed by Bandodkar who was a Bahujan samaj Hindu leader since they had fresh memories of the Christian Portuguese tyrannical rule. Catholics and mostly bamon Hindus sided with Dr. Jack Sequeira’s UGP. Although there was always a religious divide between the MGP and UGP but it was limited to election days only. Goa being a Hindu majority state MGP won the elections by default starting from the first election in 1963 and ruled the state till 1979. During those days defection, government toppling, scandals, corruption were non existent. Both these parties had different agenda but neither of them fought election based on religious issues. It was only after death of Bandodkar and entry of Congress party in Goa that corruption, nepotism and policy of divide and rule by minority appeasement started to plague peaceful Goa. Some opportunist politicians from both parties migrated to Congress which had history of manipulating votes by instigating communal divide for political gains. After demise of Dr. Jack Sequeira there was no Christian leader to match his stature to lead the party resulting in disbanding of UGP following its transformation into the Congress the catholic community had no other option but to support Congress party. The corrupt Congress administration from 1980 to 2000 paved the way for the BJP to pose as a clean political party with espousing majority community. During the 1999 polls, in the wake of the anti-corruption backlash, many hristians too sided with the BJP. Since BJP did not get a majority on its own, it had to resort to mass-scale defections from the Congress to come to power in October 2000. But the Goan Congress party is still in disarray and not yet able to shed its past corrupt image had to resort to promote not true secularism but fake secularism to protect its political interest. VVinay __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
