Pratapsing Rane has done it yet again. He has
affronted and outraged Goans. But what can you expect from a man who has the
blood of Goan on his hands. He is the only chief minister of Goa under whose
rule and orders seven Goans were shot either dead or severely injured in police
action against them and subsequently succumbed. The seven brave men were a part
of the agitation demanding Konkani is made the sole official language of Goa.
Then holding the reigns of Goa Rane was
restraining the move as he is a Marathi lover. Can we forget that during the
Opinion Poll that this same man was with the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
wanting to merger Goa with Maharashtra? So it is very obvious of his disdain
for Goa and Goans as his heart and soul is with the neighbouring state. And
that is the reason he simply loves to insult, humiliate and debase Goans like
the statements he made in the Assembly recently.
Pratapsing Rane has been an absolute failure
in his 16 years as chief minister of Goa and last 46 years as a career
politician. This translates into, for the last more than four decades or almost
5 decades, this decadent and debauched man has been living entirely at the cost
of Goans besides gnawing and sucking at the breast of Goa. Before that he must
have made his living boot-licking the colonial rulers and gathered properties
by selling his soul to them being their informant. And this man has the
audacity to call Goan Diaspora abroad as toilet cleaners and that too in the
August house.
What has Pratapsing Rane achieved as person
and politician? Absolutely nothing, if
not for politics he would be begging as he has no career. He proudly calls
himself a farmer but he has never held a hoe in his hands but being a
politician he has done a lot for himself just like all other corrupt politician.
Can we forget the business man who exposed Rane from Congress office itself? As
chief minister he has done even better for himself but for Goa nothing. In 2014
Special Investigation Team of Goa Police had booked former Chief Minister
Pratapsing Rane for allegedly accepting a Rs. 6 crore bribe to facilitate the
clearance of a mining lease.
How can we forget the time he returned from
his jaunt to Singapore at the tax payers cost and wanted to change Goa into
Singapore. What has been his achievement in that direction, he managed to
change only the colour of the uniforms of the police and presently only the
traffic police are using the imitation and colour combination.
Kadamba Transport Corporation is another one
of his achievements but this corporation too is running in loss since its
inception and is a burden to the exchequer.
Then can we ever forget that he tried to deny
statehood to Goa and kept it pending for two and half long years and it was
only after seven precious lives of Goans was lost that he was forced to
surrender to the demands of the Goans.
Shall we ever forget that he signed the
‘shoot at sight order’ on Goans during the language agitation? If Pratapsing
Rane can issue such orders what is it for him to say that Goans go abroad to
clean toilets?
Incidentally, Pratapsing Rane is the only
legislator among the present and past, to have got dung on his face at the
hands of former MLA Dilkush Dessai during the Legislative Day. It makes me
wonder whether he remembered the day when he tasted dung while making such a
distasteful statement in the Assembly. On the flipside, according to Rane,
Goans are cleaning toilets aboard but he forgot he tasted dung in Goa itself at
the hands of the Goan itself maybe Dilkush realized that despotic Pratapsing
Rane liked to berate Goans then.
But he should understand that if at all Goans
are looking at brighter horizons, it was mainly because of him and his 16 years
of lack of administration, not setting-up skilled based institutions to meet
the needs of industries, not having the foresight and vision to realize that
tourism would be a potential industry in Goa and plan for it. His lack of
intelligence and ideas had started back-firing long time back and now it is
difficult to get out of it.
It is but natural that if he did not have
ideas and intelligence then, his brains if he has any will surely not function
during this old age.
There is old saying that, “a rose plant bites
the very hand that weeds it” aka Pratapsing Rane. He has insulted the same very
Goans who for all these decades have paid not only for his upkeep but also kept
his hearth burning and will continue to even pay him after he seizes to be a
politician.
Rane has to undoubtedly apologize to Goans
whether they are in Goa or anywhere in the world or he will be scorned even
long after he is gone.
Shame on you Pratapsing Rane!!!!!
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