HOW POLITICIANS RUIN THE FUTURE OF THE YOUTH by Menino de Valpoi

This is an article that I am writing as a warning to the youth, students and the parents of the boys who leave their education, who forget their backgrounds, who forget themselves and who forget that they have a future and run after the politicians. Young friends do not think that these politicians are everything. They are out there not for you or the public but for themselves.

What inspired me to write this article was a comment on this blog by one of our blogger who has brought out bitter truth in the comment and the nature of the politicians in it. The story really touched me and made me write this article. I am also putting up that story here so that the young readers realise what they are running after and what they will get at the end of the run.

One would really like to note the selfishness of the biggest bluffer of all the times Churchill Alemao and how he played with a student who turned his follower. Below is the incident that changed the life of a very talented student Sunil Shetye, the student leader of yesteryears.

Sunil was a very good organiser during his younger days. Sunil was the one who organised the anti-Narvekar agitation during the molestation incident of Sunita Haldankar. Sunil was the driving force behind the agitation. Sunil was roped in by Churchill and was seen everywhere with Churchill even for football matches. Sunil who comes from a very decent family and never used to drink, started drinking and was going around saying that he is Churchill’s brother. Though heightwise he did resemble him but was handsome, unlike Churchill and his brothers. One fine day Churchill suddenly dumped Sunil. In the words of our blogger “A few months ago, when I was in Goa, I met Sunil on the streets of Panjim. He saw me and came running towards me. He looks like a pauper, and the first thing that he asked me was 100 rs. I knew why he wanted that for. For old time's sake, I gave him 1000 rupees. Later, I spoke about him to another of our good friend who is now a practising lawyer in the High Court. He too told me about the sorry plight of Sunil. He said once, he stopped him in front of the court and pulled out 50 rs from his pocket. Our lawyer friend said he could not say anything to him, because during our college days we had worked together to espouse the students causes.” Imagine people of Goa what this man Churchill is and what he can do to destroy the future of brilliant students like Sunil and others. Sunil is a BSc graduate and was doing his LLB when all this happened in his life.

Churchill who can dup the cause of the public by fooling them during the Anti Mopa agitation and when he receives his under the table suitcase full of money signs up for Mopa airport, betraying the cause and trust of the Goans, can easily dup his followers any moment specially when he feels they are of no use to him.

The rest of the Politicians are same too. They are not different. But it is the youngsters; youth who follow them blindly are the foolish ones. Not once do they sit and think what would be their future, what would happen to them at some stage. When they realise it will be too late because time never runs backwards. The clock will tick on and on. There are many such incidents that I have seen, where followers of the politicians living the life of worst than stray dogs after being duped by them.

Goan parents who also push their sons into going after the politicians should take care and educate their immature sons and daughters as now a days even females have started doing that. It is therefore unwise to follow the politicians who never think of them but of themselves. The example of Sunil above and the uneducated, illiterate PWD minister should be a deterrent to all those who do not see sense now.

(An example of this above story is in this video clip by me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCw9GtDtSBc )