It was a week when Varca strongman Bab Churchill and his challenger Capt Wenzy Viegas locked horns in Saxtti’s coastal plains over the issue of water supply. Local political observers had anticipated a clash between the incumbent MLA, a retired seaman, and his challenger, a serving merchant Navy Captain, in the run-up to the 2022 Assembly polls. That the duo fought a bitter fight only gives an indication of what lies ahead in the fertile political plains of Benaulim in the New Year. The battle lines are already drawn in Benaulim.
