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When Goa Forward cornered Clafacio

Cuncolim MLA Clafaciobab Dias will have every reason to blame the Goa Forward leaders for his decision to embrace the saffron brigade a year ago. As the Joaquim-Yuri duo braces up to embrace the Congress after severing ties with Goa Forward, Clafaciobab recalled how the GF leaders tried to corner him on the development front in Cuncolim just to please the Alemaos. The Congress-turned-BJP MLA may not be right in his assessment. For, even Goa Forward leaders now agree in private that they had pushed Clafaciobab to the wall just to strengthen Alemaos position in Cuncolim. 


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Not giving up on the Cuncolim electoral dream

GUILHERME ALMEIDA
Published Nov 20, 2020, 11:59 PM IST
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Is Goa Forward Party Chief Vijaibab Sardesai still scouting for a candidate in Cuncolim to take on his one-time family friend, Joaquimbab Alemao, in 2022? After Joaquimbab’s son Yuri quit the Goa Forward a week ago, Vijaibab had dissolved the Goa Forward Cuncolim Block, promising to reconstitute the same. Many had believed that Vijaibab will not only reconstitute the Cuncolim block before the Alemaos return to the party fold, but will project a strong candidate before the…

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