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WILL SIR KILL ME OFF?

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AND a few stray thoughts and a few observations, for yet another Saturday following the week when I am not confident that I would not be struck off the electoral rolls when the SIR is completed. For the record I would like to inform the Chief Electoral Officer that I have a valid identity card issued by the Election Commissioner of India.
The card has the number INXO 285494, it has been issued in the name of Rajan Narayan, S/o Perilam Narayan. It confirms that I am a male and that I was born on the 4th of July, 1947. It lists my address as House No495/3, Dona Paula Jetty, Panjim. Admittedly I no longer stay there because it was a rental place, but I confirmed that nobody has come to visit it, the place where I was staying when the card was issued to me. The card was issued on November 18, 2010 which is 15 years ago.
Interestingly, nobody has come to my current rental residence either which is at Caranzalen. In theory the Block Level Officer who belongs to the lowest cadre of the government is supposed to go visit from home to home to check if the person living there is eligible to vote. Is he or she registered as a voter? If the person concerned has a voter’s card which does not match the details on the current electoral, the BLO is expected to give a form to correct the details. None of this happened in the case of either me or my wife Pankajbala Tara Narayan who has been voting regularly in every election in the last 24 years in Goa.
It has been admitted that by the Chief Election Officer Vinay Goel that the entire Campal area turned up missing from the list given to the BLOs to carry out their Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls. We are carrying a photograph of our ID cards along with this issue of the Goan Observer. So that we may be confirmed if our my wife’s and my names are dropped or still there on the SIR so that we may go and cast our vote in a democracy.
We will know for sure if the SIR is a scam to keep out voters who are against the BJP, as is being alleged by Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and not only Rahul Gandhi, but also Tamilnadu Chief Minister Stalin and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banarjee. During the debate on the “SIR vote chori”
in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, December 9 Rahul Gandhi insisted that the BJP was colluding with the Election Commission to enable the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state elections.
Rahul Gandhi further alleged that the RSS was intent on capturing the institutional framework of the country. They have already captured the educational institutions and the intelligence agencies and are now targeting the Election Commission. The Supreme Court has asked the EC why it cannot undertake the exercise to determine who is a citizen of India? The SC has pointed out that since non-citizens cannot vote it was the obligation of the Election Commission to check on citizenship. Casting more doubts on the SIR, the SC asked why voters in Assam were exempted from submitting documentary proof of their citizenship, age and residence. Those who have been declared doubtful by the SIR have to produce either their birth certificate or their passport. What happens to poor migrants who cannot produce both?

‘VANDE MATARAM’ DEBATE
AND a few stray thoughts on the debate on the song “Vande Mataram” in Parliament. The dispute centers around the deletion of a part of the Vande Mataram which refers to Muslims. It is claimed that the part about Muslims was dropped on the insistence of Sardar Patel, initiating the debate on “Vande Mataram in the Rajya Sabha on the 150th anniversary. Home Minister Amit Shah insisted that the composition by Bankim Chander Chatterjee affirmed the ancient civilisation’s glory and tradition of worshipping the motherland that suffered from Islamic invasions. There was no reference to Islamic invasion in the original Vande Mataram composed by Bankim Chander Chatterjee.
Mamta Banarjee is among the chief ministers who refused to sing the truncated version of Vande Mataram in its new form. Mamta even objected to Amit Shah calling the author Bankim Chatterjee after the Bengali tradition of Bankim-da, after this Amit Shah referred to im as Bankim babu.
Due to the controversy surrounding Vande Mataram it was the turn of “Jana Gana Mana” written by another Bengali – this time Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore – which was chosen as the national anthem.

ARPORA TRAGEDY
AND a few stray thoughts on the blaze which destroyed the Birch by Romeo Lane night club at Arpora on Saturday night on December 6 nearing midnight. A public interest litigation has been filed in the high court seeking judicial probe into the blaze. Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant has threatened to take action against the IAS and IPS officers who he claims had colluded with the two Luthra brothers and other Delhi owners of night clubs in Goa.
The CM’s claim is that he had got former DGP Jaspal Singh transferred for demolition of a tenant/mundkar house in Assagao. The house was demolished at the instance of a senior intelligence officer belonging to the Research & Analysis wing. The chief minister needs to be reminded that when the charge sheet was filed the names of the police officer and his wife were missing from it and some locals were blamed. Similarly, the CM has never shown much enthusiasm over removing officers of the IAS and IPS. Another latest instance is the failure to take action against the Ludhiana- based fake Rajneesh who advertised an obnoxious “Kamasutra Tales” event coinciding with Christmas celebrations in Goa. The CM and the police director general of police let him off with a simple apology. The same fake godman of sorts has now announced a similar event in Jaisalmar in Rajasthan.
Regarding the Arpora tragedy and following all the negative publicity in the national media, a fresh committee has been set up to enquire into the incidence. It is chaired by Sandeep Jacques who is the favorite bureaucrat of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. Sandeep was also in charge of the decennial exposition of St Francis Xaviar and is also the observer for implementation of the SIR . The only person who seems to have taken the nightclub fire which killed 25 people is the seriously is the wife of chief secretary, Egna Cleetus, who happens to be Collector, South Goa. She has started an intense drive to check on fire safety systems in place in nightclubs.
This tragedy has turned the spotlight on migrant workers powering tourism in Goa. Most of the recent groups of migrants coming to Goa are from Uttarkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal. According to the BJP a large number of the immigrants are Bangladeshi, some of whom have been implicated in the burglaries taking place in Panjim and elsewhere in Goa in recent times.

ZILLA PARISHAD ELECTIONS
AND a few stray thoughts for another Saturday about the zilla parishad elections coming up. While the Congress and the Goa Forward have joined up to take on the BJP, the Goa Revolutionary Party has broken away from the combination. It has been revealed that there are 327 candidates in the fray for the 50 zilla panchayat seats. The elections are scheduled to be held on December 20, both in north and south Goa which have 25 seats each in the zilla parishad. The zilla parishads covers only the villages as the towns and cities have corporations to look after their interests. The Supreme Court meanwhile has upheld the high court order on reservations for scheduled tribes and other backward classes in the zilla parishad elections. This is the first time the elections are being contested on political lines.

MANDhANA’S SAD wedDING
AND a final last stray thought on the rather sad ending to the prolonged controversy over the marriage of the vice captain of the Indian cricket team –Smriti Mandhana. Mandhana was all ready to get married to a film composer who had dramatically proposed to her on the stadium where the Indian women’s team had won the World Cup Cricket Tournament against South Africa.
On the day the marriage was to be held Mandhana’s father developed some cardiac problems and had to be hospitalized. Reports revealed that the music composer was dating other women and indeed, a choreographer claimed that she was having a relationship with him. Smriti Mandhana, who hails from small Maharasthrian town Sangli, has now returned to her first love which is cricket and she has been selected in the 1-day series against Sri Lanka.

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