By: V.Sundaram, IAS
February 08, 2005

Governor Jamir has to be congratulated for saving democracy for de jure UPA Government and de facto Sonia Government in Goa with great aplomb, suavity and telling treachery with electronic speed. 

Whether Governor Jamir has succeeded in his ‘great task of stopping the murder of democracy in Goa’ or not, he has not been able to save himself from dishonour and disgrace. His preemptive action to dismiss the Goa Government within minutes of Manohar Parikkar proving his majority on the floor of the house smacks of political partisanship of the meanest kind ably aided and abetted by the Congress High Command in New Delhi.  

The Governor has played the role of Jekyll and Hyde with consummate skill. On the one hand he has proved his operational loyalty to the Congress High Command by illegally dismissing the Manohar Parrikar Government of Goa. On the other hand, he has unsuccessfully projected an unconstitutional reason for setting aside the constitutional authority of the Speaker of the House. He has arrogated to himself judicial powers not valid in law to overturn the decision of the Speaker. By doing so he has shown his indivisible contempt of the legislature in Goa. He has operationally demonstrated that the duly elected Government of Goa is subordinate to the overweening authority of the Governor of Goa. My Himalayan ignorance of the Indian Constitution comes in the way of exactly locating the concerned Article in the Indian Constitution which gives this “ Knock out” authority to the Governor of Goa. 

If this logic is extended, it will be clear that he has treated the people of Goa with contempt. Justice Hidyatullah had observed in one of his famous judgments: “The Prime Minister of India is not a Great Mogul”. Governor Jamir has shown that he is a Great Mogul in the line of great heroes of history like Timur, Babar and Aurangazeb. He has functioned as the link between Congress High Command and Goa Congress, between predatory secular hordes in New Delhi and Goa, between Sonia Gandhi and Pratapsinh Rane. Governor Jamir is indeed one of the most captivating personalities in Oriental History. His stirring message to the nation today is:

“Long years ago I made a tryst with Sonia and now the time comes when I shall redeem my pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, Goa will awake to new UPA life and freedom. A time comes in Goan history, but rarely, when the soul of Goa and Goans long suppressed by the Portuguese finds a Sonian utterance.” 

Whether Pratapsinh Rane’s survival as Chief Minister is assured or not, knowing full well the established track record of Congress Governance in India after independence, anyone can come to the categorical conclusion that Governor Jamir has laid for himself a concrete highway to reach greater and greater heights in New Delhi including the highest office of the President of India in the not very distant future.

1)     A liar will be believed even when he speaks the untruth. 

2)     One carefully planted untruth can uproot a thousand well-known and accepted truths. 

3)     Never to tell the truth is to have no lock to your door; you are never wholly alone particularly in a Coalition for Collusion and Collusion for Coalition UPA Government. 

4)     Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a Congress Minister the compliment of acknowledging a superiority whenever we lie to him. 

5)     Without carefully contrived “Secular Lies”, Congress would perish of despair and boredom. 

6)     The most honorable liars are those who keep their ‘secular’ balance without sliding on the verge of ‘communal’ truth. 

7)     The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. 

8)     Political sin has many tools, but a Congress lie is a handle which fits them all. 

9)     Detest all lies except lies in public or printed lies. 

10) Constant repetition through collusion can secularly transform a blatant lie into a blessed truth. 

11) A cat has 9 lives; a Congress lie has ten. 

12) A consummate Congress liar should go to the end of the world to carefully avoid a good memory.

13) A liar goes in fine clothes, A liar goes in rags, A Congressman is a liar, Clothes or no clothes

14) Lie exists. Only truths are invented.

15) If a man is not habitually untruthful, his very truths will be false to him and betray him.

16) Truths are the religion of slaves and Communal Gods. Blatant lie is the God of the freeman.

17) Reasoned falsehood will often be more powerful than irrationally held truths.

18) A truth is not hard to kill and a lie told well is immortal.

19) Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

20) We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves

21) With ‘secular’ tools of falsehood, duplicity and contradiction we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

22) No power on earth can deceive us so along as we are committed to the noble task of deceiving ourselves.

V.Sundaram, IAS