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RGP's South campaign loses momentum midway

RGP's South campaign loses momentum midway
RGP Rupert Pereira’s campaign in South.

MARGAO

Will the Revolutionary Goans party overcome the “spoiler” tag as the party went about its campaign around South Goa countryside to vote for party candidate Rubert Pereira?

With the Congress painting the RGP as the B team of the BJP, the regional party had to face the vote splitter tag from opponents throughout the campaign.

The RGP had made an impressive debut in Salcete in the 2022 Assembly election, leaving poll pundits shocked and surprised. 

With the May 7 Lok Sabha poll battle narrowing down between the arch political rivals, the Congress and the BJP, the RGP’s campaign lost momentum midway, with the party candidate and ardent workers concentrating in certain pockets.

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Will RGP spring surprise or will it fall by wayside?

MANUEL VAZ
Published May 4, 2024, 11:46 PM IST
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Will RGP spring surprise or will it fall by wayside?

OLD GOARiding on a wave of anti-migrant stance and the aggressive campaign of Goa for Goans, the Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) secured around 10% of the vote share at the 2022 Assembly elections, the highest by any regional party.In the process, it opened its account by wresting the St Andre seat where its relatively young candidate Viresh Borkar defeated the seasoned Francisco Silveira of BJP and it appeared that the RGP would prove to be a formidable political entity in…

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