On December 19, 2015, our mai Goa will complete 54 years of so called liberation. Once again it will be a day of useless speeches by Goa’s useless politicians. In this 54 years of liberation our mai Goa has been ruined and looted in the name of development. Our fertile fields been converted into huge concrete structures. Our beautiful green, rich hills been razed into flat surfaces. Huge number of constructions been allowed on the hills. Sand dunes protecting our coastline on our virgin beaches been razed to make way for rich hotels. In other words, our once virgin beaches been miserably raped during broad daylight. Concerned authorities hardly bothered about the recovery of mining loot worth thousands of crores of rupees during the Congress regime and now the present government is all out to frame the genuine environmentalists who are trying to protect the environment. They are the same people who were been used by the former Chief minister of Goa and the present defence minister of our country against the then Congress in Power. We can defend ourselves against our enemies on the border with war weapons but no power in the world can win over the power of the environment and we all have witnessed this in the past. It is because of our greed, the genuine mining dependents are suffering due to the closure of mining presently.
The biggest responsibility of any elected government is the responsibility in its own people but every successive government after liberation has miserably failed to protect its own people and our own land. It all started with the first ever elected government which tried its level best to merge Goa with Maharashtra but Goa’s daring children saved Goa from the merger. Then came the Congress which was very well known for top level corruption and her top level corrupt political sons and daughters and the present day BJP is just following the footsteps of Congress.
The first revolution against the Portuguese law was started from my village of Cuncolim. I am proud to be a Cuncollekar but sad to say that daring Cuncollekars disappeared long ago. The ground water of our village got polluted due to the dumping of the industrial waste in the nearby fields. Carbon deposits is very much common in our houses, not forgetting the worst rotten fishy smell on daily basis. The Goa pollution control board been only conducting tests since ages but no results till now. Some of us successfully fought against the football Academy during Joaquim Alemao’s tenure as a minister saying that we cannot afford to lose our precious land for the academy. Now work on the same private land is in full swing to convert it into a massive residential area. Will the same now benefit Cuncollekars in any way? Believe me or not, shortly we will witness another Monti-dongor at Cuncolim.
All major cities been destroyed in the name of unplanned development and now full efforts are on to destroy our beautiful villages. Take the Case of Tiracol, the destructors are all set to destroy the village in the name of Golf Course and a Bridge against the wishes of the locals.
Wish you all a very happy Liberation day as Goa is marching towards a disaster and God save our souls.
