Mopa airport project: a super bamani conspiracy against mulnivasis land control

George Carlin famously said ‘there are few rules that I live my life by, the first rule is: I believe nothing that government tells’. And truly Bamani governments ruled by Congress and BJP in Delhi and Goa are in non-stop collusion with each other to further the bamon interest of annihilation of mulnivasi people through various strategies of deception

1^st September 2012 issue of ‘the Goan’ published an interview with Mr. V.P.Agarwal, Chairman of Airports Authority of India based in Delhi. The interview is meant to drum up support for the Mopa airport project in the Northern border taluka of Pernem. There is already another airport functioning in Dabolim, Marmagoa. Various reasons are cited as to why two airports are needed for such a tiny State of Goa. The reasons cited range from partial Navy control over Dabolim airport to inadequate facilities for landing at Dabolim. The interview also mentions that both the airports are the projects of heavy investments.  Land acquisitions process is on legally, even though with some setback due to High Court cases by the villagers of the affected villages of Varkhand, Casarvanem, Chandel, Ugvem, Amerem, Mopa and Poraskadem.

The real reason however does not figure at all in the interview. The reason is a Bamon conspiracy against mulnivasi people by causing massive deprivation of land.

First notification of land acquisition expired in 2006 without land being acquired, and it is interesting to know as to who acted as a pressure for the government to push for fresh land acquisition notifications. It was no other that bamons and their political parties both Congress and BJP fulfilled this role. Bamon Jeetendra Deshprabhu, who was an office bearer of Congress party, played this role. BJP party through its President Laxmikant Parsekar also fulfilled this role. Bamon Deshprabhu who were later convicted in illegal mining scandal in Korgaon, Pernem launched an agitation in 2006 to demand fresh land acquisition notifications for Mopa airport project be issued. What is the interest of Bamon Jeetendra Deshprabhu in this? The interest is that most of land for the proposed airport in Pernem is owned by his family legally, purely because he is a Bamon and his ancestral connection with Portuguese colonial rule that bestowed upon him title of ‘Viscon de Pernem’. This title was not only given during Portuguese colonial era but was renewed in the decade of 1990s by Portugal government. This title is given to a person - in the tradition of European nobility - to govern a district as a representative of the State. Deshprabhu got this title from the Portuguese state even though Portuguese rule officially ended in Goa on 19^th December 1961.

From this title it can be deduced that Bamon Deshprabhu’s ancestors colluded with Portuguese in the matter of administration that’s why they never demanded that Goa be freed from colonial yoke as practically at local level in Pernem it was under Bamani yoke.

This rank in Portuguese administration gave undue hold over Pernem taluka to Bamon Deshprabhu’s family. After Portuguese era officially ended, with Indian army action in 1961, in a matter of decade most of the land got transferred in his family name via scandalous land survey of 1972. As a result 23 villages out of 27 villages of Pernem are legally controlled by Deshprabhu family. Mulnivasis who are the indigenous people of India are tenants and Bamons who are Eurasians by their DNA are the Owners, Bamon Jeetendra Deshprabhu is certainly one of them.

This injustice with mulnivasi people by Bamons is real problem of Pernem. Instead of solving this problem by taking away land from Deshprabhu and handing over to the mulnivasi people, Airport is sought to be imposed on Pernem  and Goa, even though there is one airport at Dabolim is easily sufficient for the State of Goa. And Bamon Deshprabhu has been leading the campaign to get airport at Mopa. In 2006 he slept on the tracks of Konkan railway in Pernem and blocked railway traffic for nearly three hours. Why do Bamon Deshprabhu had to resort to such a drastic step? He had to do this because there was increasing assertion by mulnivasi people in Pernem and they had begun revolting against his hegemony. In Korgao mulnivasi people had defied him openly; in several villages mulnivasi people had stopped paying traditional khand (tribute) in kind to this landlord. Revolts have been simmering all over Pernem. In another incident mulnivasi people countered muscle tactics adopted to frighten the mulnivasi people in Devsu, Pernem. There are several people in Pernem who are witness to the Deshprabhu’s shady deals over the past few decades.

The subtle yet certain revolt is not just against Bamon Deshprabhu but against all landlords across Pernem taluka. That is the reason Permen taluka is covered up with projects that would need large amount of land taken away from the control of the mulnivasi people. In Mopa it is a Greenfield airport in the form of Special economic Zone, In Dhargal it is sports city, in Mandrem it is sports village, in Tiracol it is golf Course, and massive sand extraction of Tiracol river that is making dangerous inroads into land that has Deshprabhu as owner in villages like Kiranpani, Keri. It is expectation of Bamons that with all these projects closing in, the hold of Mulnivasi people over land in Pernem will be lost. Currently even though ownership is with landlord, on ground it is the mulnivasi people who are in the control of land. This situation needs to be changed. The land ownership patterns of Pernem must be changed and all the land under the control of all the Bamon landlords needs to be taken back and given to mulnivasi people as they are the rightful owners of the same. This is a revolutionary proposition and needs to be implemented in revolutionary interest.  Bamons are expecting rise of such an upsurge and are therefore in a mighty hurry to sell out Pernem. There are reports that Deshprabhu and other bamon interests are anticipating massive real estate boom in Pernem if this airport and other projects are allowed to take off.

BJP has been involved in campaigning for the airport since 2006 when it organized public meeting in coastal Pernem claiming that it is in the interest of development of Pernem. One does not need an expertise in rocket science as to understand why BJP never demanded that the land ownership patterns in Pernem taluka be changed and ownership rights be given to mulnivasis. This is because BJP is against the interest of Mulnivasi people. Now that it is in power instead of promoting long term land reform for the benefit of mulnivasis by taking over the land of landlords such as Bamon Deshprabhu, it has indulged in distractive tactic of giving money to girls and women,  while MLAs siphon of public treasury by 1 lakh 3 thousand per month as their official salary! Ministers, Chief minister and the Leader of the Opposition is drawing even more than this and draw up projects to take away mulnivasi control over land in Goa.

The basic problem of Pernem like other parts of country is caste system and Jati system created by Bamons and mulnivasi people are enslaved. Goa Chief Minister Bamon Manohar Parrikar instead of dealing with this issue has indulged in diversionary tactics by publicly stating that Airport in Pernem is needed for the reasons of exporting vegetable grown in Pernem and Maharashtra. He wants us to believe that the major problem of Pernem is that it has no market to sell its cultivated vegetables and it needs the airport by itself to export vegetables! Truly he is Bamon master of deception and distraction. Yet what else could be expected of a Bamon when he occupies the position of Chief Minister? Historically bamons has been cheating mulnivasi people in Goa and India and he just continues that tradition. No amount of request and cajoling is going to change them. It is only independent movement of Mulnivasi people that is going to change this situation. Bharat Mukti Morcha is committed to generate this movement.

Opposition to Mopa airport is strong even in South Goa as mulnivasi people involved in businesses fear loss of their business. In order to quall this opposition additional grants of 350 crore are sanctioned to Dabolim airport and Chairman of the Airports Authority of India V.P.Agarwal is asked to give public assurance that both the airports will function simultaneously based on passenger choice.  This is a mega bluff. George Carlin famously said ‘there are few rules that I live my life by, the first rule is: I believe nothing that government tells’. And truly Bamani governments ruled by Congress and BJP in Delhi and Goa are in non-stop collusion with each other to further the bamon interest of annihilation of mulnivasi people through various strategies of deception. Even the unanimous decision of Lok Sabha on 6^th and 7^th May 2010 to carry caste-based census was betrayed while implementing. When betrayal of mulnivasi people are so glaring and upfront what credibility does statement in ‘The Goan’ dated 1^st September 2012 that Dabolim airport will not be shut down in favor of Mopa airport carry? What is big thing about 350 crore grants for airport expansion when daily scandals in India runs in thousands of crore? What is such a big hurdle to close down Dabolim airport and betray mulnivasi people in both South and North Goa?

Targeting Goa’s slums is a part of bamani conspiracy to hide Bamani infiltration in Communidades

Our (Bamons) goal is accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This prevents them (Mulnivasis) from seeing the changes as they occur

August 11, 2012 issue of ‘The Goan’ carries a centre spread story titled ‘Lords of the Slums’ on pages 16-17. It blames politicians of protecting slums in Vasco, Margao, Cortalim, Dabolim and Mapusa. This weekly paper is published by Fomento Publications. Fomentos also have their interest in destructive mining all over Goa and are even proved to be using explosives illegally on the Hiralal Khodidas mine in Colomba while extracting of ore, tries to convince the readers that people from different parts of India are illegal occupants on the lands that they occupy since 1970 and 1990. The paper claims that 70% of Goa’s land is owned by 223 Communidades and communidades are known as ‘Ganvkaris’, ‘Ganvponn’ that has unique and age-old Collective land ownership pattern. It also claims that Ganvkaris (Communidades) came into existence sui juris and prior to creation of State. They were developed by clearing the jungles and establishing villages, installing their village deity and introducing private laws. It does not tell that this Ganvkaris belonged to Gawdas and Velip tribes in Goa and that Fomentos along with other mining companies like Salgaoncars, Chowgules, Dempos, Sesa Goa, Vedanta, Damodar Mangalji are involved in causing irreversible damage to their habitats with their mining plunder of Goa. It does not disclose that Bamons who have infiltrated on communidades are invaders from Eurasia and they need to be shown the door.

The weekly paper claims, quoting government data that all together there are 2,515 illegal constructions on Communidade lands in Goa. Further ‘The Goan’ is trying to provoke bulldozing of these ‘illegal’ constructions, this time by quoting Indian Supreme Court judgment in Civil Appeal No. 1132/2011 @ SLP © No. 3109/ 2011 pertaining to unauthorized occupants of Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat lands. It is pertinent to note that office bearers and activists like Nelson Azavedo and Luis de Sousa of Communidade movement have been repeatedly challenging the legitimacy of imposing Panchayats rule in Goa in their various presentations at Goa University and other places in Goa, and even in Court case at Goa Bench of Bombay High Court. If Communidades agree that their land belongs to Panchayats then they will be negating all that they have been saying publicly since 1997. ‘The Goan’ advocates that Communidade lands be declared as Panchayat lands. It swims against the tide of Communidade Movement in Goa.

The reason for this advocacy is understandable for it is well known fact that this weekly paper is playing the PRO role for BJP variety of Brahminism and even before this paper was launched its editor played this role as an editor of ‘OHeraldo’. For Bharat Mukti Morcha it makes no difference whether it is BJP variety of Brahmanism or Congress variety of Brahmanism for we are committed to uproot all varieties of Brahmanism. Every Brahmanism supports Capitalism in India. It is important to keep in mind that Bamons have long term interest in taking over Communidade lands in Goa, ‘rationalizing’ them and the plans to this effect are already declared in ‘Goa 2035: vision and road map’. This is a vision of Bamons, by Bamons and subscribers of Bramanism, for Bamons. Mulnivasis has nothing in it not even mention is made of existence of ST, SC, OBC people. For Bamons we are all erased and no longer exists today and also in 2035.

‘The  Goan’ deliberately did not explain reasons behind the emergence of slums not only in Goa’s Communidade lands but all over the country. It did not explain that it is the policies of Brahmanism ushered in on 15 August 1947 onwards that are responsible for the skyrocketing poverty in India. People living below poverty line were pegged at around 12 crore in 1947. This number has witnessed sharp increase and touched 83 crore whose daily income varies from Rs. 5/- to Rs. 20/-. This is an official government of India data as per Arjun Sengupta committee report. And there are no Brahmins living in slums, no Brahmins living below poverty line; for they are the rulers of this country and that’s why all the aboriginal people of India – ST, SC, OBC and those converted from these categories are the once who are forced to live in poverty due to the well engineered policies by the State for the past 65 years that witnessed Bamani rule of Congress and BJP for long period of time.

Why then ‘The Goan’ only targets these 2,515 houses? It is due to Bamon’s very own ways of achieving the targets of decimating mulnviasis ‘Our (Bamons) goal is accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves (Bamons). This prevents them (Mulnivasis) from seeing the changes as they occur’. If all the mulnivasis are to get targeted then it would be too difficult to handle the backlash. Bamons have experience in this for many thousands of years. Any case we have witnessed the pattern of attack here in the past two weeks; first issue dated 28 July 2012 Mulnivasi South Goa Taxi owners as Gangs and Mafia, then second issue dated 4 August 2012 targeted Mulnivasi Muslims of Goa as harbingers of Terrorists, and now this is a third target: Mulnivasis in Communidades and mulnivasis living in slums. In none of the targets Bamon is sought to be victimized but only the Mulnivasis are its targets sometime they are Christians, sometimes they are Muslims, and latest all category of mulnivasis SC, ST, OBC and converted minorities staying in slum areas.

The right to vote of the mulnivasis staying in slum areas is also the target of ‘The Goan’. The article seeks to convey that because the mulnivasis have votes that they are getting protection of politicians. It does not write that it was Dr.Bhimrao Ambedkar who gave them vote and not the manusmriti. Manusmriti effectively denied any rights to all the mulnivasis and had turned all of us Shudras, Adivasis and Untouchables into slaves. ‘The Goan’ has not mustered courage to attack Dr.Ambedkar for giving votes to these slum dwellers, but surely it wants them to be disenfranchised.  Slums, legal as well as illegal are the creation of Bamani rule over India and they will go away only when Bamani rule is destroyed and reduced to the ashes. Individually targeting few thousand houses in Goa’s slums is a part of bamani conspiracy to hide Bamani infiltration and takeover of Communidades in Goa.

'The Goan' will never publish as to how Bamons have systematically infiltrated into the management of communidades in Goa and taken them over. It will never do the survey of all the 223 communidades and investigate as to how Bamons entered their names into Communidade records as share holders. For it stands to protect Bamons as this weekly - like so many other print and electronic media in Goa - is owned and edited by Bamons; for it is self destructive job for bamons in India and that’s why they will never do it nor have they ever done.

Let’s take the case of Colomba Communidade. Eurasian Bamons have completely taken over this communidade and all the tribal people have been left out of the communidade affairs. The names of tribal people like Rama Velip has been erased from the records of the Communidades and all the bamons have hijacked it. One Bamon Dilip Prabhugaonkar transferred 31 hectares of Commundade land as his private property during 1972 land survey (that is the biggest land scam in Goa so far that allowed Eurasian Bamons to be legal owners of lands of mulnivasi people who were deprived of education and hence were ignorant of what was going on in the legal matters). These 31 hectares of land was classified Forest land. Prabhugaonkar converted this land in nexus with the State authorities into rice field when there was no rice field there at all. After this conversion this land was sold to Fomento mining company. This land today is used and abused by Fomento the boss of ‘The Goan’, yet it will not publish this in its weekly. The other Eurasian Bamons besides said Dilip Prabhugaonkar that are involved in capture of Colomba communidade includes Avaduth Prabhudesai, Venkatesh Prabhudesai and Anil Prabhugaonkar. Two weeks ago on 29 July 2012 Eurasian Bamon from Margao Advocate Uday Bhemre, ex-MLA and culprit of engineering Bamani language as Goa’s official language publicly declared in Margao Court premises that Bamons have grabbed lands of tribal people of Goa. Of course he said this with the intention of pacifying tribal people of Goa that are involved in commanding State to declare Tribal Area under 5^th Schedule of the Indian Constitution. He was silent on as to Bamons will return these lands back to tribal people of Goa.

The story of Bamons infiltrating inside the Communidades that were originally known as ‘Gaunkaris’ and ‘Ganvponn’ is widely spread out to various Communidades in Goa. Its spread is cancerous and requires very serious treatment. The example of Colomba communidade is cited only as a sample of Brahmanism that has eluded focus even of the people involved in defence of Communidades. There is a need to investigate as to why this aspect of communnidades remained without investigation by the movement in defence of Communidades headed by Adv. Andre Pereira who hails from OBC community in Marmagoa taluka.

What 'the Goan' has done is that it has focused on the Slums with the intention of making the Bamon grip over Communidades even stronger. Yet Bamons cannot fool all the people all the time. Especially it cannot fool Bharat Mukti Morcha that is committed to destroy Bamon rule in the country sooner than later.

Bharat Mukti Morcha stands in defence of Communidades of Goa. Bharat Mukti Morcha considers Bamons as number one enemy of communidades not only for having infiltrated inside Communidades and conspiring to throw Goa’s mulnivasi Shudra people out of communidade managements but also for creating the problem of slums all over India by way of Bamon rule in the entire country for the past 65 years that has pushed mulnivasis people to settle on Communidade lands.

The ultimate objective of this article in ‘The Goan’ is to trigger violence against Mulnivasi people from Goa and Mulnivasi people from other parts of India. This weekly has already indulged in ideological violence against mulnivasi people living in slums. The authors and architects of this seeds of violence are Bamons. Bharat Mukti Morcha is committed not only to resist Bamani violence but to overthrow the Bamani domination in every field of life. The problems of Communidades and problems of mulnivasi slum dwellers have common origin - the Bamon. It is in the selfish interest of perpetuation of Bamon rule that they are trying their level best to trigger a riot against slum dwellers in Goa. Bharat Mukti Morcha will expose Bamon conspiracy at every stage; destroy Bamon plans to convert Goa into play ground for Bamons by putting one group of Mulnivasi people against another group of Mulnivasis.