News Analysis | Goa Assembly election: Will Catholic-dominated Salcete prove the BJP’s ‘Achilles Heel’?
The Hindu
With a Christian population of roughly more than 40% in the eight seats, Salcete has largely remained impervious to the BJP
It is known as Goa’s ‘belt of kingmakers and party-hoppers’ and has thrown up no less than four Chief Ministers.
Even by the standards of Goa’s baffling political shifts, Catholic-dominated Salcete, with its sylvan settings framed by the backwaters of the Sal River in South Goa, has defied political interpretation.
The eight constituencies of Salcete (the name a Portuguese version of the Konkani ‘Saxxti’ derived from the 66 villages that originally formed its territory) has been the hinge on which Goa’s political fortunes have revolved.
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