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‘Cash for votes’ creeps in to Goan football Some will call it moral bankruptcy, others will point out it as a lack for strategic plan but for a silent majority it is plain bribery. The cancer of ‘cash for votes’ is slowly but surely creeping into the Goa Football Association (GFA) elections. After all football is part of Goan life and it is but natural for all the good things (read bad things) to find way into the football system of Goa. Goa polity has been used to political parties and candidates doling out liquor, cash and other goodies in the run up to the state and assembly elections for the last few decades. The last elections of the GFA Executive Committee held four years back was the first time money was paid and promised to the clubs by one of the contestant who lost the president’s election to Srinivas Dempo of Dempo SC. Dempo for the records did not indulge in any unfair practices but won on merit the confidence of the clubs. Some of the clubs compl...

On  a milky night on silver sands laid white lilies Its fragrance drew bees in thousands The strong was too addictive The odour gave fresh leash to many and a new twist to life Bees flocked to the silver sands in search of bliss Bees blown away by currents and sea waves to land in a alien land The bees, lilies, fragrance had not meaning for Pedro, the fisherman The sea was his world On the edge of the beach sat the fisherman's son pounding the sand The night and days were a turbulent lot cause he was to vote for the first time The fisherman engrossed in deep though of what the future hold him in golden Goa

Three footballers in Goa assembly election fray Margao: Three football players are trying their luck in the March 3 Goa assembly elections. Avertano Furtado, Benjamin D’Silva and Rajan Naik are the trio, who having toiled and sweat on the football field, are burning the midnight lamp to turn a leaf in a different field. They are vying for three seats in the 40-member assembly. Furtado, who during his career kept goal for Salgaocar sports club, an I-league club- the semi-professional Indian League – is testing his fortunes in the political arena for the first time. The six-footer is taking on the might of another six-foot plus political heavyweight of Goa – Churchill Alemao – the last named owns a family club Churchill Bros, which is one of the four Goan clubs playing in the I-league. Dempo Sports Club, owned by mining house, Sporting Clube De Goa are the other two clubs from the smallest state of India to feature in the top league of the country. Vasco Sports Club, which takes its nam...

GOA  ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2012  NAMES OF CONTESTING  CANDIDATES  Sr. No., AC. NO., Name of Assembly Constituency, Name, Party Name, Sex, Number of  Candidates  per AC 1,1, Mandrem, Dayanand Raghunath Sopte, Indian National Congress, Male,6 2,1, Mandrem, Laxmikant Parsekar, Bharatiya Janata Party, Male, 3,1, Mandrem, Menino Francis Monteiro,  Goa  Vikas Party, Male, 4,1, Mandrem, Sameer Salgaocar, All India Trinamool Congress, Male, 5,1, Mandrem, Sanjay Damu Kole, Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), Male, 6,1, Mandrem, Sanjay Prabhu Dessai, Independent, Male, 7,2, Pernem (SC), Kanta Sabaji Jadhav, All India Trinamool Congress, Male,9 8,2, Pernem (SC), Manohar Rajaram Pednekar, Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), Male, 9,2, Pernem (SC), Manohar Trimbak Ajgaonkar, Indian National Congress, Male, 10,2, Pernem (SC), Rajan Kambli, Independent, Male, 11,2, Pernem (SC), Rajendra Arlekar, Bharatiya Janata Party, Male, 12,2, Pernem (SC), Sakharam  Vishra...