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.

Taking the phrase ‘clinging to power’ to a new level - By Nisser Dias

We all know that politicians of all hues are power hungry and given our electoral system they repeatedly contest and get elected. But chief minister Manohar Parrikar has taken the phrase ‘clinging to power’ to an absolutely new level. 

He is clinging to power at the cost of his life. Which sane person or with average intelligence would hang on to power when his health was deteriorating rapidly.

Maybe he wants to further deteriorate the financial health of Goa along with his own. Or maybe he wants the exchequer to continue to foot his medical bills. He may enjoy the perks of office but that does not mean he has to take advantage of the situation. Every time he has been the chief minister he has never failed to increase the salaries, perks and allowances of the legislators.

Just as he utterly failed to keep the state finances healthy he seems to have failed to save for himself and now that he is severely ill, continues to seek treatment in top hospitals in India and America at the exchequer’s expense, while the tax-payers find it difficult even to get proper treatment and medicines at the government hospitals.

Ironically the ‘know-it-all’ chief minister of Goa did not know what was happening to his body as he was too busy clinging on to his chair while crushing up-coming or budding leaders and keeping the opposition in fear.

The BJP boasts of having more than Rs.10 billion in their party fund account. Chief minister Parrikar must have surely contributed to this fund. It would be interesting to know how much is his party giving back or contributing to help their ailing member or footing his medical bills?

For months now he is hopping from hospital to hospital leaving the State headless and its administration, financial health in shabbles. He is simply not bothered what has happened to the State or what will happen because of these consequences.

If at all Congress or any other party was ruling the State, Parrikar would have sought the opportunity to go hammer and thongs and would not rest till another legislator was appointed as chief minister.

Because the opposition is disoriented and toothless administrative paralysis continues. Recently one Congress spokesperson demanded the status of chief minister health within 24 hours or they would initiate protests all over the state. 48 hours have passed and nothing has happened. Looks like the Congressmen have chickened out.

Another two ministers are fighting for their lives in top hospitals in Mumbai and America besides the Manohar Parrikar and tax-payers continue to foot their bills too. If at all the chief minister was in the pink of health, he would have stripped them of their portfolios and appointed some else but since he is also in the similar dilemma he lets them continue as ministers in his cabinet thereby letting Goa and Goans suffer.

Chief minister boasts of being a financial wiz, but Comptroller and Auditor General has pointed out that Goa lost Rs. 1400 crores due to mismanagement. The CAG report speaks volumes of his financial expertise. Parrikar should hang his head in shame and should have resigned as being incompetent for having caused such a huge loss to Goa, but brazen as he is, continuous to be the CM.

This is an indication that along with his health he has ruined the financial health of the State. At the same Parrikar should also not forget that his party patriarch L K Advani who he compared to ‘rancid pickle’ is in much better health than he. What goes around comes around.

In conclusion, Manohar Parrikar should immediately step-down on health grounds not only as chief minister but also as an MLA thereby setting a precedent for his ailing ministers to also resign.

But we very well know that he will not do so as he has never kept his promise to his late wife to allow him 10 years in public life. Then he reneged his public statement that 2012 would be his last term in politics and again in 2017 he said that as long as he believes he is fit, he will be in politics.

He himself has admitted that he is suffering from pancreatic ailment – it could much more as there is a veil of secrecy around it. Through his own admission he has confirmed that he is not healthy or fit enough to govern or to be in active politics and should resign or hand over the reins to someone else to nurse Goa’s financial health back to shape.