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Nuvem still holds out hope for him

Congress-turned-BJP MLA Wilfredbab D’Sa-backed candidate might have lost the Nuvem ZP seat by a 151-vote margin. The MLA’s camp, however, says that not everything is lost for the one-time MLA, a year after he embraced the saffron brigade. Close aides of Wilfredbab in private say that the MLA’s candidate came close to upset the Congress calculations despite the fact that he is now part of the BJP. Local Congress leaders, including Eversonbab Valles, may say people are just waiting to teach Wilfredbab a lesson for switching sides. The MLA’s camp appears confident that not all is lost in Nuvem. Wait and watch.


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Benaulim’s politics a potboiler

GUILHERME ALMEIDA
Published Jan 2, 2021, 12:26 AM IST
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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…

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