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On 03/02/07, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> elections in Goa based on a democratic adult franchise took place on October
> 24, 1972, and resulted in the election of 148 village panchayats. On Dec.
> 9, 1963, Goans went to the polls again and elected their first Legislative
That's an obvious typo. You must have meant 1962, Victor.
> Assembly. Bandodkar then became chief minister. You consider him a Hindu who
> somehow stole the election and became chief minister; I and hundreds of
> thousands of other Goans consider him a man who won the election fair and
> square, and became chief minister; i so happened that he was a Hindu.
I think caste (rather than religion) offers a better explanation into
the post-1961 election results in Goa, when the Congress dominated the
rest of India. But the role of saffron politics on some networks of
freedom fighters (for instance, the Azad Gomantak Dal) also explains
the subsequent politics in some ways. Of course, many expats are
simply clueless about such realities ... many here too of that time
would have similarly been. FN
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