Domestic tourists continue to drink, cook, litter in the open, while Goa govt is in slumber. -- By Nisser Dias

In 2017 the nuisance of domestic tourists cooking by the roadside and in open spaces had been raised in the Legislative Assembly after media had highlighted the issue.

A visit to Colva beach on January 1, 2019 revealed that Indian tourists cooking, eating, drinking and littering the area in the children park, which is right behind the tourist police booth and opposite the Colva residency.

Though Chief minister Manohar Parrikar had assured the house that cooking in open spaces and by the roadside would not be allowed and the government  announced that it would form special squads to check on tourists who cook on the roadside and eat there itself, littering the place. A further announcement was made of setting up camping sites for tourists with facilities for cooking and for ablutions during their trip in the State.

More than an year has passed but nothing concrete has happened to fulfil the assurance in the assembly.

When tourism director Menino D’souza was asked about it his reply was stunning as he said, “lots of things are pending and I’m on leave, I’ve have seen it myself and it is a big nuisance but it has to be tackled very sensitively because of other states.”

As usual the domestic tourists have swooped down to Goa to ring in the New Year in buses, tempo travellers and jeeps packed with the utensils, gas cylinders, kerosene stoves and provisions.

After bringing in the new year they have set up their kitchens in the open space and were seen cooking, eating, drinking and discarding the waste right there or the Colva creek without any  inhibitions and fear of the tourist police.

When tourist police on duty was questioned about it, he said, “the top police brass in south Goa have instructed us not to disturb them and the domestic tourists were drinking outside our booth, against the direction of the DGP to penalize such tourists from buying liquor at wholesale outlets and drinking on the beach.”

When pointing out that the tourists were cooking, this cop swung into action and went around to stop cooking but the tourists but the group of tourists only nodded their heads and went about their business.

When the tourists were engaged into conversions, they were really upfront and said they have driven from neighbouring states just for two days, the  cost of lodging and provisions is expensive in Goa, liquor is cheap, so we enjoy and go back, we have been doing this for years.

There were other domestic in groups merrily consuming alcohol in the park, while some were still in sleeping it off. And the tourist police were turning Nelson’s eye to it.

Finishing Goenkarponn. Controversial and caged parrots of a minister stop traditional Christmas dance. By Nisser Dias.

The recent usage of state machinery and police department to disallow a traditional dance being held at Nuvem gave an insight into the arrogance and despotic manner of the minister.

The minister does not need instruction as he was know from his younger days of always commanding people around him and whoever did not toe his line would be handled by goons from Khareband. Hence it is no surprise that to get even politically, that the former lieutenant of goons and now a minister in defunct cabinet used controversial government officers to stop the show.

The minister must have got some sadistic satisfaction out of it but then the voters are going to have the last laugh as his getting voted back to power is very bleak.

Have we forgotten Maclon Fernandes from Curtorim, who made a statement to the entire Goan community all over the globe by selling mangoes and Goan produce from his swanky Skoda car at the Ponda circle. He too was forcibly and high handedly stopped by the police from selling at the spot.

Now we really know the purpose of the Fatorda police station. It is to use these men in uniform like a small personal army to instill fear in rivals. Sadly the rivals are common men like Maclon who tried to eke out his living selling mangoes and Bryan D’souza the organizers of this dance. Both these personalities are not political people. They are proud Goans, who simply want to keep the spirit of Goenkarponn alive, not like the minister who has no known source of income or business but a lavish lifestyle. His only business is to instill fear in people who will not come to him for blessings or favours because they are proud Goans who rather keep their head high rather than lose their respect seeing in company of politicians without morals and values.

Goans who go about their activity with their heads held high and not back stab people for personal gains nor use the government machinery to target others. This minister is a complete crass, he has no moral values absolutely even though his family members are held in high esteem. He is complete debauch, corrupt morally, ethically and even spiritually. He is chameleon who hoodwinked his constituents and sought their votes immediately thereafter backstabbed them thereby showing his true colours.

Dy. Collector Agnelo Fernandes - CBI had raided his
residence and foreign currency and liquor.

It was a well thought and orchestrated plan to disallow the traditional dance and only politicians in power can it. Firstly to delay issuance of license by the Collector’s office than giving an oral go-ahead. Deputy Collector Agnelo Fernandes being on duty on Christmas day, Fatorda police inspector Navlesh Dessai keeping a bus full of policemen ready when on a night the police force is stretched to its limit to stop the dance. It was a game plan well executed.

Coming to the government officers who have no spine to stand-up to ministers and act in the right manner for the common-man through whose hard work officers like deputy collector Agnelo Fernandes and police inspector Navlesh Dessai get paid their salaries.

PI Navlesh Dessai --
The disgraceful police

Agnelo Fernandes is an unworthy controversial government officer, who was raided in the year 2015 by the CBI while he was officiating as a passport officer for allegedly issuing passports to shady characters. It was allegedly that during the entire raid which began at 7.00 in the morning and went on full day, the CBI officers had unearthed 104 bottles of foreign liquor when the permissible limit is just 12 bottles. Even foreign currency was recovered from his residence. Allegedly this officer could be bought over or made to issue passports with a bottle of liquor. Incidentally Agnelo also hails from Nuvem-Kirbhat

The case is yet to be charge-sheeted as it is hanging like a sword over his head and hence in fear must be dancing to the tunes of politicians in power. But Agnelo should realize that one day or the other the case will have to be charge sheeted and by then all the politicians will wash their hands of the case and this controversial official will have to swing alone.

Police inspector Navlesh Dessai is an incompetent, inefficient, unfit police officer who rather does his master bidding than serve the common man. Navlesh would lick his master’s shoes clean if merely asked to bend.

Nisser Dias

Recently police inspector Navlesh Dessai has been conferred with Director General of Police (DGP) insignia award for his meritorious service in the police department. This is utter disgrace for the police department and even more to the Inspector General of Police Jaspal Singh. It seems that the insignia award was conferred upon this useless, toothless, spineless officer at the behest of his political master.

Moreover it is disgrace to an upright IGP Jaspal to agree to confer this award to an officer who has no self-respect and no sense of honor.

The minister involved has denied his role in not allowing the traditional Christmas, but compulsive liar that he is, not only his voters but the Goans all over the world know it will not believe it. All know that the minister sold his soul which he did not have to form an illegal government as he knew that it was his last chance to be an MLA and he had to grab power for reasons we all know.

Manohar Parrikar - a financial burden and NPA (Non performing Asset) to the ex-chequer. -- By Nisser Dias

The ailing chief minister Manohar Parrikar made most of the Goans think that he is all about morals, ethics, above the begging bowl et al but very few had seen through the mind of this wolf in sheep’s clothing.

We also knew that his mind was not simple as he wanted us to believe, simply put his thought process and his ways of attire were poles apart. That some intelligent personalities seeing his dress code gave him the tag of a simple man and they were way off the mark.

Manohar Parrikar is the most power hungry chief minister Goa has ever experienced. We have seen arrogant chief ministers like Pratapsing Rane and Luizinho Faleiro, we have seen corrupt chief minister like Ravi Naik, we have experienced the most inefficient chief ministers in Laxmikant Parsekar and Digambar Kamat, but the Parrikar is all rolled in one and more – he is dictatorial, arrogant and despotic.

So much so that even being terminally ill he does not want to pass the baton to a young colleague but sadistically wants to inflict a deathly blow on Goa and Goans by paralysing the administration which it is most despicable.

Rajan Ghate on indefinite
hunger strike demanding
CM's resignation

In all these years we have not heard about individuals resorting to indefinite hunger strike to urge his to step down from office. We have not heard about protest marches demanding the resignation of chief minister but here we have to resort to non-violence movement to make the defunct Manohar Parrikar listen.

Lots of video clips on social media of the Parrikar giving moralistic interviews and talks about when politicians should make way for youngsters are moving around in cyberspace and also when he would quit politics and power. For most of 2018 he has been weakly batting for his life but is not leaving the crease of power.

How power hungry can this man be? Of course his mis-rule as chief minister from 2012 had earned him a nickname as the U-turn CM and along with it he had lost sympathy but his clinging to power from his bed has stripped him of every ounce of respect and pity he had from the people as along with himself he has put the administration of Goa into Intensive Care Unit.

Goans demanding CM Parrikar steps down from
office

One can understand that the exchequer can pay upto to a certain limit for the well-being of their elected representatives however it cannot be limitless so much so that quite a chuck of tax collected from the hardworking Goans is being used for Parrikar’s maintenance.

The saddest part is that such treatment would never be made available for the common-man. In fact the common man sometimes does not get the basic medicines for which they contribute and many a times influence have to be used for government medical doctors to even examine or attend to patients.

The people have a right to know if not the status of Parrikar’s health at least how poorer the ex-chequer has become with his illness. We have to set a certain limit of how much of tax payers money can be used to maintain the health of elected representatives.

God forbid if in his place a member of another party had contracted terminal illness and was continuing as chief minister, Manohar Parrikar would have brought hell on earth and have the government turned upside down and ruthless as he is would have even cast aspersion on the family itself for using public money.

Administration Paralysis

His ministers, party colleagues have now and again been demanding that he steps down not only on health grounds but also because Manohar Parrikar is no longer in-disposable to the government or the BJP party but has become a huge liability to the Goan tax-payer.

In the history of Goa a social activist Rajan Ghate also had to resort to indefinite hunger strike to make people aware that there is total paralysis of administration and breakdown in law and order and the imported and laced ministers in his cabinet are making merry.

There is talk that chief minister Manohar Parrikar want his statue erected in the state of Goa and his supporters will surely demand it but they can be assured that there will be a huge opposition to it and all the dirt that is stock-piled in cyberspace and on the internet will be handy ammunition. Manohar Parrikar will also go down in history as the 4 times CM who never completed his term even once, though he had the opportunity to do so. He will be remembered for all the U-turns, he will be remembered for not being to solve the garbage lying our highways and roads which he has been promising to solve December 19, year after year. He name will commit to memory how he did not spare the students and curtailed their annual vacations. Can we forget how he mishandled the rape of a student in a school in Vasco?

Goa and Goans being gangraped

The list of his mis-rule and mis-deeds can fill reels of paper, how Manohar Parrikar’s decisions were taken not in the interest of Goa and Goans but in the interest of BJP to make himself a hero.

Unlike yester years the real facts of how he stuck to his chair even when he could not perform the duties he swore on the Constitution of India, his integrity as a guardian of the State’s treasury has been proved hollow as Goans are paying through their nose for the treatment to keep his heartless heart beating.

After almost nine months of pumping precious money to nurse him back to health has failed even after incisive treatment in New York, Manohar Parrikar has become a financial burden and NPA (Non performing Asset) to the ex-chequer as a chief minister. It is utter shameful and disgraceful of him to remain in power. And to realize that some called him educated and intelligent. An educated and an intelligent man or woman would never try to destroy their State or people but only cruel dictators in the likes Hitler, Salazar and Goa’s chief minister Manohar Parrikar is instintively following their footsteps. All tyrannical, autocratic rulers have the same mind set.

Even if Parrikar resigns now, it will not be considered graceful and it will go down in history as he was forced to step down. It required like minded people and social activists to take a morcha to his residence urging him to step down.

Shame on you Manohar Parrikar.