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Three weeks after its victory in the Lok Sabha elections in the South Goa constituency, one of the two Goa seats, the INDIA alliance comprising the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now clinched a crucial zilla panchayat bypoll in the state.
Six-time North Goa MP and former Union minister Shripad Yesso Naik is all set to continue his ministerial innings in the third Narendra Modi government.
The Congress and the BJP Tuesday retained their respective strongholds of South Goa and North Goa Lok Sabha constituencies.
Although elections in Goa are not fought strictly along the caste lines, there has always been an undercurrent of caste playing a silent but significant role in the coastal state’s politics marked by volatility and shifting alliances.
On April 16, Felipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao, the Archbishop of Goa and Daman, issued a circular urging Catholics to vote for candidates with secular credentials “committed to upholding the values enshrined in the Constitution”.
At his house in Mulgao village in North Goa’s Bicholim taluka, Madan Kauthankar, a former electrician at a mine, is switching channels on the television. About a kilometre away, several trucks traverse a dusty road adjacent to a lake, leading to a newly operational mine atop a hillock.
At a time when the Congress is urging voters to “save democracy and the Constitution” by voting for it in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, its South Goa candidate Viriato Fernandes finds himself in the middle of a controversy over his old remarks on the Constitution.
At a time when the Congress is urging voters to “save democracy and the Constitution” by voting for it in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, its South Goa candidate Viriato Fernandes finds himself in the middle of a controversy over his old remarks on the Constitution.