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http://twitter.com/goanet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the benefit of the few Goans in blindfolds; who say/write that resident goans are not speaking out against migrants!! http://www.oheraldo.in/newscategory/Letters/13 *Two fight, third gains Zino Carvalho, Salcete *I completely agree with Sandesh S Naik’s views in his letter ‘Honouring of Bandodkar’ (Herald, 20 Feb) where he said that the late Bandodkar may have been the first Chief Minister, a good administrator and non-corrupt, but definitely a creator of Goa’s great divide between centuries of the old two peaceful and friendly communities for his senseless personnel ambition, of joining Goa to Maharashtra, which in turn would have been a backyard small district of Maharashtra, where the sons of Goa would never get a chance to be ministers or chief ministers. The Indian military liberated Goa and gave it to us to govern in a silver platter. Instead of uniting together to demand granting special status under the Indian Constitutional framework which was assured by Parliament and making Konkani as an official language of Goa so that it would help to protect the Goan identity. A regional party was formed on communal lines to merge Goa with our neighbour and demanding unjustified recognition of Marathi Goa’s official language. All this led to unnecessarily conflict and hatred between these two communities mostly at the time of elections. All these years are wasted for the supremacy of Konkani and Marathi as official languages without keeping any check on the increase of the numbers of migrants in the state and in turn it threatens both communities of Goa to be minority in our own state, thus raising a problem to have a third or fourth language shortly.