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Pre-poll alliances need of the hour


Absence of pre-poll alliances of parties that will support one another post poll will be counter-productive due to splitting of votes instead of forging pre-poll alliances that will reinforce one another. 

If going alone is what parties want to do, then the people of Goa should know in advance which parties are likely to support major parties that may stake claim to form the government. 

Since as of now there are eleven parties such as BJP, Congress, TMC, Aam Aadmi, GFP, NCP, MGP, MDF, Revolutionary Goans, Goencho  Avaaz and Shiv Sena, every party has to make a clear delineation of post-poll tendency which should be revealed by the contesting parties so that the electorate will know in advance and thus vote depending at least on tendencies. 

As of now, with so many parties in the fray, it is possible that the Goan electorate will be a confused lot as to which party they should vote for. The fiasco of the last Assembly elections should not happen again.

Ideally there should be a clear two party alliances which will pit only the ruling party alliance and the opposition party alliance. Such a scenario will definitely lead to a different equation. 


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BJP trying to erase name of Mahatma from history books?

JERRY FERNANDES, Saligao
Published Oct 16, 2021, 11:52 PM IST
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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has recently claimed that the Hindutva icon Veer Savarkar had filed mercy petitions with the British during his incarceration in Andaman jail at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi. According to books, Mahatma had returned to India in 1915 and had launched the first freedom movement only in 1917 whereas Savarkar had filed his first mercy petition in 1911 itself. Now, how can Rajnath Singh make such a baseless allegation and claim that…

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