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Sleepless nights for politicians

As the assembly election date is approaching, politicians are getting sleepless nights. Politicians have selected team members to make a list of the migrant voters in this constituency and hunt where exactly they are staying nowadays as most migrant voters are staying elsewhere, in villages and cities. Now, the team members are checking up on them to see that all the migrant voters are brought on election day to vote for their particular candidate. Elections in Goa are a lottery ticket for migrant voters as they are given money and alcohol to vote for a particular candidate and because of them our politicians win the election in Goa. This is the main reason they try to pass unwanted bills in the assembly giving all rights to migrant voters. Niz Goenkar are not important to them. 

Ronnie D'Souza, Chandor

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Power to recall only way to prevent defections

The Goan Network
Published Feb 4, 2022, 1:00 AM IST
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Political parties in the state are trying out various means to stop their would-be MLAs from defecting to another party. The Congress sought divine intervention to stop their members from defecting. The party candidates took a pledge in places of worship that they will not skip to another party if elected. AAP has reportedly made its candidates sign sworn affidavits that they will not defect. It is true that the scourge of defection has been the bane of politics in Goa. In…

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