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Goa Political Conference Goa Political Conference Under the auspices of the Goa Congress Committee a meeting was held on Sunday the 24th instant at 10 a.m. in the Maharashtra School, Opera House. The meeting was held to discuss certain arrangements to be made in connection with the proposed Goa Political Conference to be held in Bombay next month. The meeting was open only to members of the Goa Congress Committee and was a private meeting. 50 I was present outside till the meeting got over at about 11-30 a.m. and gathered the following information in a discreet manner :— That Dr. A. G. Tendulkar presided over the meeting and that a reception committee of about 10 persons (all Goans) was formed to settle the place of the conference, to invite certain delegates and to make arrangement, for their stay in Bombay. The co-operation of all Nationalist News papers was requested to give publicity about the forthcoming conference and in particular the Konkani papers of Bombay were requested to send their representatives so that the news may reach in Goa. It was also decided to hold a further meeting within the next fortnight to decide upon other matters such as selection of a President of the Conference etc., about 15 persons attending the meeting. F. J. D'SOUZA, S. B. (I)., 25th March 1946. The Bharat Jyoti, dated 14th April 1946. Goa Staunchly behind United India The President of the Goa Congress Committee, Dr. A. G. Tendulkar has sent a telegram to the President of the Indian National Congress, Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stating that the Goa Congress Committee adheres to the principle of territorial integrity of India and requests Congress recognition in the forthcoming constitution of the right of the people of Goa, Daman and Diu for self-determination and their desire for re-union with the mother country. Translation of the printed Leaflet " QUIT GOA " published by the Goa Congress Committee, Bombay. Resolution passed by the Goa Congress Committee during its general meeting on 3rd March 1946. " Although Goa has no further support except India because Goa is only a point on the map of India, even then you cannot forget that Goa is bound to Portuguese Imperialism by chains of physical bondage and separating us from our Indian brethren by that foreign Portuguese Government, a government that is small headed, without conscience and that is ready to hold our hearts for its own needs. This wicked Raj that has gone on for 436 years has made us forget our own consciousness and our past history. This bad fortune of ours has now to be thrown off far. Looking at the whole of India we should make efforts to free our motherland from foreign domination and we Goans should go forward in this task and to march henceforth hand in hand with our Indian brothers and to free our motherland Goa from the Shackles of slavery and that of the whole of India, for unless we achieve freedom we cannot have any improvement in our land. So we say to the Portuguese Government " Quit India—Quit Goa, Damaun and Diu" and give into our hands the administration of Government. Goa Congress Committee prays to all our brethren in India as well as outside India to give all possible support in this most important task." No. 17/P. of 1946. Dated the 29th April, 1946. 51 To The Commissioner of Police, Bombay. Sir, I have the honour to inform that for about fifteen days a number of pamphlets were secretly distributed in Portuguese India. A sample of same is enclosed. It has been found out that these were published by Sjt. Massillon Almeida, General Secretary, Goa Congress Committee, and printed in Gomantak Press, Bombay-4. Enquiry is being made locally and it has been ascertained that Massillon Almeida is of Assolna, Portuguese India, and is residing in Bombay. It is requested to enquire and inform me whether the pamphlets were printed in the Gomantak Press, and who is the author of these pamphlets. Thanking you, Nova Goa. DANIAL FERNANDES AGUJAR, Major, Commandant of Police, Secret Special Branch (I) C.l.D, No. 3150/H Bombay, the 25th May 1946. To The Commandant of Police, NOVA GOA. Reference your letter No. 17-A/P, dated the 29th April 1946. About 2,500 leaflets, identical with the one forwarded with your letter under reference, were printed at the Gomantak Press, Bombay, in four languages viz., Konkani, Marathi, English and Portuguese on 4th April 1946 and published by Mr. Massillon Almeida, General Secretary of the Goa Committee, 35 Hamam Street, Fort, Bombay. He resides at 379. Thakurdwar Road, Bombay. The leaflet contains the text of a resolution moved by Dr. A. G. Tendul kar, President of the Goa Congress Committee, seconded by Mr. Almelda, General Secretary of the Committee and passed unanimously at the General meeting attended by over 300 members of the Committee on the 3rd March 1946. O.C.D.C.P., S.B. (I) C.I.D. Goa Congress Secretary Arrested Bombay, July 16, (A.P.), Mr., Tristao Braganza Cunha, General Secretary of the Goa Congress Committee, has been arrested and detained in Margao according to information received in Bombay. A warrant for arrest of Mr. Massillon Almeida, General Secretary of the Goa Congress Committee in Bombay, has been issued and a suit filed against him in a Goa Court. 52 Arrested Goa Congress Leaders, taken to Agoada Fort Tristao Braganza Cunha, founder of the Goa Congress Committee who was arrested at Margao, on July 12 by the Colonial Administration of the Portuguese Government, has been, it is reported taken to the Military Fort at Agoada, where he is kept in detention. It is also reported that he will be tried by Court Martial. The Goans are agitating for the public trial of Mr. Cunha with opportunities for defence. Goan Resistance Movement By : A Friend of Goa Some of the reports published in the press about the developments of the Goan resistance movement recently appear to me to be harmful to the interests of the Goan people who are trying to vindicate civil liberties. The impression given that the movement is carried on by a group of agitators in Bombay or any members of the Indian National Congress is not only false but misleading and indirectly strengthens the hands of the Portuguese authorities in their drive to put down the Goan people's movement. Background of struggle Similarly, collection of money and volunteers is uncalled for. As far as I am aware there are about two dozen committees formed throughout the different villages in Goa to organize the struggle which is directed by Goans themselves without any outside help. I am not at liberty to disclose the names of the persons connected with the organization. But they are not the persons who are publicised in your reports. The struggle in Goa has a social background. The misery of the people has been growing with unchecked and criminal operations, of the black market, profiteers and other social parasites and the struggle that is developing is a spontaneous expression of this mass misery. The power behind the police is the power of these criminal elements who appear to have promised every help to the Government for putting down the Congress " topiwallahs". The agents of certain sectarian interests are also active and are trying to create confusion. Karnatak Regionalism in the Press Some of the reports I have seen published indicate that some persons from Kanara are trying to bolster up the claims of Goa's identity with the cultural interests of Kannada and, in one case, the authority of the Karnatak Congress Committee is publicised. I would draw the attention of the Congress authorities to this misuse of the Congress sanction as the Indian National Congress has not extended any official support to any individual claiming to collaborate with the Goan resistance movement. Some of the Bombay agitators are reported to have made a spectacular departure for Goa for leading the resistance movement. But they travelled to Goa under false names and returned back without doing anything. Reports are circulated of false arrests and warrants and the Portuguese Government requisitioning Negro troops. Inquiries show that the Portuguese Government has not imported their levels from Africa. They have been raising a combative force composed exclusively of Portuguese and " mestico " ranks. 53 Its Non-violent The ' mesticos' are the Portuguese Anglo-Indians and have been maintained by Government through payment of allowance formerly out of the Goa lottery funds. The police are no doubt beating up persons marked and suspected of participation in the resistance movement. The beatings are likely to provoke retaliation amongst the Goan masses not all of whom are emasculated. If the movement spreads to Sattari and Sakhali, homelands of the warrior Maratha clan of the Ranes, it would be impossible to maintain non-violence which is essential for tactical purposes at this stage. The beatings no doubt inflame the people and the committees functioning in the villages are utilizing them. But the danger of the fifth column is much greater in Goa as well as in Bombay. The Government has always distributed large funds amongst the various groups of Goans living in Bombay and I am not surprized that some of the leaders of the Satyagraha movement have had connection with organizations receiving subsidies from the Portuguese propaganda organizations. There is the danger of the agents provocateurs, also in Goa and the leaders of the movement are taking precaution against it. Bombay Chronicle, dated 22nd July 1946.
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