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YOU MAY LOSE YOUR VOTE TO SIR

Stray Thoughts November 7, 2025 , by

AND a few stray thoughts and a few more observations for yet another Saturday following the week, when the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls has started in Goa. Make sure you are at home when the block level electoral officer comes home. You will not know when he or she will drop in. If you are not at home when they come knocking your name may be knocked off from the electoral roll. They are expected to make three attempts to meet you.
They will probably not come even once if you are considered a voter hostile to the ruling BJP. In any case, they will go to the house or flat which is shown as your place of residence when you first registered as a voter. If like me you have moved from one rental premise to another several times they will strike you off the electoral rolls. Your address will have to be the same as is entered in your voter ID card. You have to stand still for all your life to be counted as a voter.
If you have moved house or moved on to other cities or countries for a job you will be struck of the voters list. You will have to produce your EPIC card issued by the election commission. No point in showing them your ration card, your electricity bill, your Pan card or even your Adhaar card. They are not accepted as proof that you are a voter already and that you want to continue to vote in the forthcoming assembly elections in 2027 in Goa.
If you are a migrant or a Muslim migrant you don’t have to worry. You don’t even have to be present. Your local MLA will ensure that your name is on the electoral list. The Special Intensive Revision is a huge scam by Narendra Modi & Company to rig the elections. Over 20 lakh voters, mostly belonging to the backward communities who support the Congress, were evicted from the electoral rolls in Bihar where polls are scheduled very soon.
THE Election Commission has launched the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) in the rest of the country. All BJP states including West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have condemned the manner in which SIR has been done. The SIR started in Goa. Since Atanasio Babush Monserrate is the revenue minister, most of the block level election officers will be appointed by him. They will avoid middle class and upper middle class voters who are not likely to vote for him. We will provide you with the number of the election chief of Goa. Bombard him if the BLO does not come home or rejects your application. You have a right to vote. Don’t let anyone steal your vote. If you do not vote or are not allowed to vote it will be cast by some proxy voter at the behest of the politician.

WHERE IS LAW AND ORDER?
AND a few stray thoughts on the worsening law and order situation in Goa. It is not the cops who are to blame but the politicians. The police have become shuttlecocks tossed around by politicians. Every MLA and minister is using the police when it suits them and blaming them when things go wrong. A case in point is Minister of Tourism Rohan Khaunte blaming the North Goa police chief Rahul Gupta for the confrontation between the local fishermen and the Oceanman organization, implying that Oceanman has the patronage of the senior police officer.
The Director General of Police has publicly denied any role of the police at any level in permitting the Oceanman event at Caranzalen-Miramar beaches. The police are also facing the flak for severe injuries to a young Navelim man in police custody. The young man from Navelim was picked up on a charge of harassment of the local politician. In police custody he was apparently tortured by a police sub-inspector Shirwaikar of the Madgaon police station. The injuries were so serious that he was rushed to the Goa Medical College & Hospital in Panjim.
Clearly, the young man was beaten up badly under orders from the political bosses. Now the police have been asked to provide the alibi for the police sub-inspector who gave him the third degree. The young SP of South Goa has made it worse by claiming that the victim slipped and fell down and broke his head, accidentally. Nobody is buying the story. In fact there are demands for a case of culpable homicide against the police sub-inspector. There is silence from the Home Minister Pramod Sawant.
In another incident some tourists from the holy city of Varanasi were allegedly bashed up by bouncers and the manager of a night club in Anjuna. The tourist group alleged that they were roughed up by the bouncers and the manager. Apparently, one person in the group went along and sipped a drink from the neighboring table. Also the group claimed that when they were leaving after paying the bill one of them knocked down a chair. The manager claimed that the tourists misbehaved. That they started hitting on the waitress. Which of course is probable as there are no waitresses in Varanasi. The club manager who incidentally is an outsider or baile himself has been complaining that the Varanasi tourists were drunk and disorderly, that they danced on the tables. The police have registered the case against the manager and the bouncers. The local police are claiming that the tourists were in the wrong.
MLA Michael Lobo has accused the North Goa SP of favoring the Varanasi tourists. It is well known that Bombay-style dance bars and call girl dens under the guise of massage parlors are thriving in Calangute, Candolim and Anjuna. All the sleazy joints enjoy the patronage of Michael Lobo. It is not widely known that there is a very up market so called massage parlor adjacent to the five-star, 13-storeyed “Crescent” building owned by the Monserrate family in Panjim.

CUPID SUPREME COURT!
AND a few stray thoughts on the Supreme Court playing Cupid. The SC in a recent judgment expressed concern over the stringent provisions of the Protection of the Children from Sexual Offences Act (POSCO). The SC is distressed over the Act being abused to target adolescence romance, to quote the SC: “The POSCO is being misused in cases of marital discord and matters pertaining to consensual relationships between adolescents. The law is being thrust upon boys. We should spread awareness among boys and men about the legal provisions.”
The context was a case filed by the parents of a adolescent girl against a boy involved in a teenage romance. The girl regularly travelled by local train from Borivali to Vile Parle. She told the police that for approximately a year the young man had stalked her. He would board the same train and stand near her and engage in inappropriate physical conduct. Apparently he would push her and touch her thighs and although she protested he did not pay attention. However, when the presence of the victim was required at Andheri police station, the girl did not turn up. The accused claimed that he was in the same college as the teenage girl and suggested that she had misidentified him.
In another case when the survivor of the rape case married the victim after she attained adulthood, the Rajasthan high court smashed the POSCO against the couple. The problem is that young couples are not allowed to sort out their problems and parents get involved and create more problems for the young couple.

WOMEN BIGGER VOTE BANK
AND a last stray thought for yet another Saturday. Women are now the biggest vote bank for political parties. Every time an election takes place the incumbent government offers huge sops to woo female voters who now exceed 50% of voters. It was the late Chief Miniser Manohar Parrikar who started with the Laadli Laxmi scheme, when the girl child got a lump sum at the age of 18 to get married. It was later modified to include higher education; then there was a Griha Adhaar scheme which gifted Rs2,000 a month as a hedge against rising prices.
Karnataka introduced the Griha Laxshmi and it became the Laadli Behna in Madhya Pradesh, in Maharashtra it was Laadli Behen, in Bihar Nitish Kumar announced the Mukhia Mantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana under which Rs10,000 was gifted to every women in the state. Assam and West Bengal has increased the allocation for the Mayia Samaj Yojana from Rs1,000 to Rs2,500.
All these schemes are merely money bribes and are unconditional cash transfers. Apparently, the total amount of money gifted to women as an election sops exceeds Rs2 lakh crore the country over.

SECULAR GODS
ANOTHER final stray thought on how the gods played a major role in the World Cup victory of the Indian women’s team. It started with Jemimah Rodrigues, a Mangy living in Bandra, Bombay, who thanked Jesus for her outstanding performance in the semifinals against Australia. Rodrigues quoted from the gospel thanking Jesus, claiming that all she had to do was to stand still while Jesus played for her. This was followed by Sakshi Verma who played a major role during the World Cup final thanking Bhagwan for the opportunity to get the World Cup for India. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur thanked Guru Nanak.
You see how the women’s cricket team which won the OSI final against South Africa to win the World Cup, reflects the truly proactive secular character of the country — where all gods are celebrated.

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