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----- Original Message -----
From: "floriano"
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Birthday Wishes For Churchill Alemao
> Comments:
>
> That was a good summation on our very own Churchill-bab by Freddy Fernandes.
> All I can say is "Mog assa thuim Xhinn asta'. Yes, That's right.
> Churchill-bab could have done wonders for his and our Goa. But somewhere
> down the line he has certainly lost his sense of direction.
>
> I have particularly been surprised to note that our Churchill-bab is all of
> 61 years today. I had always given him 3 to 4 years over me. But I was
> wrong. He happens to be my junior by 2 years and that is a hell of a good
> feeling. Next time I can tell him ' Don't you talk. Just listen. Cause you
> are junior to me. He has been a good friend of mine over many years and he
> has never said no when a certain request [nothing personal] was made to
> him. And I have sent birthday greetings to him by SMS wishing him 100 not
> out at the pitch.
>
> Comes to my mind the many direct confrontations I had with him. Freddy talks
> of MOPA. I was on the stage at Agacaim when a huge anti-Mopa meeting was
> called to order. And I was the second last person to speak, Churchill being
> the last. And what I said there in the public for more than a thousand
> people to hear was not liked by Churchill-bab at all. I publicly held
> Churchill responsible for Mopa and most of the other chronic ills befallen
> Goa. If only he had to stick to the UGDP, I had said, all these things
> wouldn't come by. But Churchill, I said , didn't keep his word he had given
> to the people of Goa at the UGDP's 'soul searching' convention held at the
> Vidya Niketan, Margao, when he in the South and Babuso Gaonkar in the North
> both lost the Parliamentary elections on the UGDP tickets. Someone from the
> audience had asked Chruchill if he would now join the BJP. He had said "not
> on my life". That same somebody had asked "Will you join Congress?"
> Churchill's response was an acrimonious 'Xhi !' He had gone further to say
> that 'MOVLOB DHOT'TOREK TENKOT PUNN HO CHURCHILL CONGRESSAN KEDONCH
> VECH'NAM" Reminding sulking Churchill on the stage behind me, I had told the
> public that before 3 months were out, Churchill was in the Congress. I do
> know that Churchill-bab has not forgiven me for that nasty jab in the
> public, but he has remained a friend.
>
> Again at Adarsh Hall in Margao at yet another anti Mopa meet I had reminded
> those sitting on the stage, including Churchill and the public at large that
> Dabolim Airport was a Civilian airport during the Portuguese time. It was
> only taken over by the Indian military during the Goa's so called
> Liberation. That, by all means, it had to be handed over back for civilian
> use, but was not. That liberation of Goa was actually not liberation but
> annexation as according to the Supreme Court of India. I could see that
> Churchill was a bit uncomfortable at these words.
>
> Three years ago, at the funeral service at the Varca Church of our Vice
> President (South) Albert Leitao, who was a dear friend of Churchill-bab, the
> parish priest, who was clearly pushing Churchill-babs bete noire's commands,
> refused anyone to eulogize in the church, saying that this could be done at
> the cemetery. This got Churchill-bab fuming so much that he didn't speak at
> all, if I remember clearly. But then, I had to speak what was dear to Albert
> Leitao and spoke about Albert's wish that UGDP and Goa Su-Raj should join
> forces with Churchill-bab coming back to the UGDP to take over Goa once and
> for all. I don't think Churchill -bab approved of that, either.
>
> As I have said earlier, Churchill-bab has never said no when I have made a
> request to him. The major favour he has done for the Mapxemkars is to
> implement the GICA Sewerage scheme of the Japanese ( 2000 crore free of
> cost scheme for Margao, Mapusa and Calangute) when a delegation of Mapusa
> Nagrikancho Ekvott lead by Adv. Antonio Lobo met him at the secretariat.
> Happy to say that the scheme is now ready to dig coming November to sanitize
> Mapusa City for the first time ever, thanks to Churchill-bab and the good
> Japanese folks. Praise the Lord !
>
> I have always said this of Churchill-bab. That he has a golden heart. That
> he takes from Peter to give it to the poor Paul. [ maybe not all of it,
> though :-)] This is unlike any of his contemporaries like Luizinho,
> Sardinha, Mauvin and least of all, Narvekar.
>
> May his fragile knees find strength to hold his massive weight for some more
> years or until he sees to it that he has been efficiently represented in Goa
> by his dear daughter daughter Valanka, whom he has been tirelessly grooming
> to fit into his shoes.
>
> Never the mind that I have missed sipping black-lable at his 61st birthday
> celebs but I have had ample of it come Christmas time, birthdays [his, his
> junior's] et al.
>
> And what would Goa do without good old Churchill-bab?????????????
>
> Cheers
> floriano
> from PPS to PPS
> 9890470896
> floriano.lobo@gmail.com
> www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Freddy Fernandes"
To:
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:09 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Birthday Wishes For Churchill Alemao
Birthday Wishes For Churchill Alemao
Going through Goan news paper today, I found myself face to face with the great
Churchill Alemao, a good number of times, Goans greeting him on his 61st
birthday, quite an innings for a man of his size and stature, it's been common
knowledge that his legs have failed him on more occasions than one but still for
the love of Goa and his Goan people he still staggers on his uneasy feet. He has
been hailed as the man of the masses, and with all that's been said about him on
the papers, I am sure even the Great Winston Churchill, the English leader must
be turning green with envy in his grave.
A leader born of the people's movement during the Konkanni agitation, Goans
looked upto him for deliverance, and for some time he was there for the people,
but like all good things have to come to an end, so did Churchill's good era, he
bulldozed his way into Goan politics through the buffer support of the Konkanni
movement and in no time sat on the chair of power by means more foul than fair,
but on that chair he was bitten by the bug of power and corruption. Not that he
was a knight in shining armour during his transition from a mere cook sailing on
the high seas to an entrepreneur with a fleet of trawlers, from owning a mere
volleyball team to a multimillion rupees football team. No doubt he has done a
lot initially but he certainly could have done a lot more for Goa and Goans
As he grew in power and stature he started getting himself deeper into the rut,
so much so he started detesting the very own people who helped him to power, a
novice in politics suddenly become a master craftsman in the art and turned the
tables on the veterans. With all his wrangling people stared to see through him
but in no time, he played the ace of spades that was up his sleeves, the Mopa
airport, again people formed a wave behind him only to be ditched, hiding behind
the MOU promised, which unfortunately has yet to be signed.
Though Churchill Alemao could have made a great difference to the way things are
being run in Goa, he has been a silent bystander to the atrocities carried out
on Goa and Goans, while the people move like sheep without a shepherd, in their
agitations against mega housing and illegal mining, he has failed to utter a
word against the defaulters, in and around his own village, sand dunes have
disappeared, all sorts of illegalities have been approved by the panchayat
bodies, and he still doesn't utter a word. If he was the man of the masses he
would have been with the masses and not with the elite few who are rapping,
plundering and butchering Goa.
Mr. Churchill Alemao has indeed let the people of Goa down with his inaction in
supporting the masses, he has proved that the company of the elite, with money
to burn in better than the company of the masses. He has laid waste the dreams
and aspiration of the people of Goa and I ask all his supporters, how can you'll
support this man who has turned his back on mother Goa ? How can you'll support
this man who has allowed the rape of Mother Goa, your own Mother Goa ?
On his 61st birthday I ask the mighty Churchill Alemao and all his thirty nine
colleagues, would you all remain silent if your own mothers were raped ?
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
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