13th March 2017
Dear Vijai,
I write this with a heavy heart, a very heavy heart indeed! But, I have no choice … Having been your friend, in speaking out I may be hurting you, your two MLAs Jayesh Salgaonkar, Vinod Palyekar and our common friend Rohan Khaunte, but by maintaining silence I would be hurting thousands of Goans across Goa and also failing in my duty to stand up for something that is intrinsically wrong.
The people had thought you were the future of Goa. They were all for your: Goem, Goenkar & Goenkarponn. They supported you thinking that you were a beacon of hope to fight the Corruption, nepotism and the U turns of the BJP.
Goans were also very upset with the Congress for the way you were ill-treated. I had myself publicly condemned the Congress and Luizinho Faleiro for it. But now you have betrayed your Goem, you have shocked every Goenkar, and you have forsaken your very own Goenkarponn.
In the lightning speed in which you embraced the BJP overnight, you have committed the mother of all U turns. You have disgraced yourself, your family, your Constituency and most importantly your Goa. The great Goan and your uncle, the late Ravindra bab Kelekar and your late dear sister our great poet Madhavi must be rolling in heavenly abode over the manner you have so rashly and selfishly taken Goa and Goans for a ride.
You cannot and never will be trusted by any one again. Even by your new found idol Manohar Gopalkrishna Parrikar, who as he always does, will treat you as a purchasable commodity to be used and disposed off. I am infact stunned that you dared trust Manohar Parrikar, someone who has publicly spewed nasty venom against you and even tried his best to implicate you in the Louis Berger case.
You now have two options. You, Jayesh Salgaonkar, Vinod Palyekar and Rohan Khaunte should gracefully resign as MLAs and seek a fresh mandate by contesting on a BJP ticket. As an alternative the four of you have the choice of facing the public wrath and condemnation for the rest of your lives.
You’ll have deeply hurt every Goan. But despite your betrayal, Goa will overcome and survive to see Goem, Goenkar and Goenkarponn.
Let me leave you with those words of Billy Graham, “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost”.
Your very heartbroken once well-wisher,
Aires Rodrigues
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