Churchill Alemao

Last updated

Churchill Alemao
Renovated Margao Fish Market.jpg
Alemao in 2018
2nd Chief Minister of Goa
In office
27 March 1990 –14 April 1990
SpouseFatima Fernandes Alemao
Children6
Relatives
Residence(s) Varca, Goa, India

Churchill Braz Alemao (born 16 May 1949) is a former Chief Minister and former MP of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He was the MLA of Benaulim constituency in the state of Goa.

Contents

Political career

Alemao was chief minister of Goa for a brief period in the early 1990s, and later became an MP representing the South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency) from 1996 to 1998. [1]

Founding United Goans Democratic Party

Alemao founded the United Goans Democratic Party as a spinoff of the United Goans Party.

Congress days

In the late 1980s, Alemao quit the United Goans Democratic Party and joined the Indian National Congress. He became Chief Minister for a 18 days as part of the Progressive Democratic Front led by Congress. He had to resign due to an internal split in the party. After that Luis Proto Barbosa became chief minister. Later, Alemao became an MP as Congress leader.

Save Goa Front

In March 2007, Alemao quit Congress and formed a regional party, the Save Goa Front. The party contested 17 seats and won 2, including his seat and Aleixo Lourenco's. After the election, no party won a majority and the Save Goa Front joined the Congress-led alliance to form a government.

Return to Congress

In January 2008, Alemao merged the Save Goa Front with Congress. He continued as an MLA and Minister in Goa during this period.

March 2012 elections

In the March 2012 elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Alemao lost to independent candidate Avertano Furtado by a margin of over 2000 votes. [2] His brother Joaqium Alemao, who was then Minister in the Government of Goa, also lost as he could not retain his Cuncolim constituency. [2] Churchill Alemao's daughter Valanka and Joaquim's son Yuri also lost the 2012 elections. [3] All four candidates from the Alemao family suffered defeat. [4] [3] Churchill Alemao later blamed the then Chief Minister of Goa, Digambar Kamat and the Electronic Voting Machines for his defeat. [3]

Entry into the All India Trinamool Congress

In 2014, after his daughter Valanka Alemao was denied candidature by the Indian National Congress party in the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha from the South Goa, Alemao resigned from the Indian National Congress and announced that he would contest the polls as an independent candidate. [5] [6]

Two days later, Alemao joined the All India Trinamool Congress and was formally inducted in the party by Madan Mitra, a Minister of State in the Government of West Bengal. He contested the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha from the South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency) as a candidate of the All India Trinamool Congress and was defeated by Narendra Keshav Sawaikar of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Alemao polled 11,941 [7] votes in these elections. [8] [9]

Joining Nationalist Congress Party

On 17 October 2016 Alemao joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and declared his intent to contest the election on the NCP ticket. He won the Benaulim seat in 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election.

Return to AITC

Alemao again joined AITC on 13 December 2021. [10] [11]

Football

The football team Churchill Brothers, which is currently competing in I-League, is owned by Alemao's family. [12] [13] His daughter Valanka Alemao is current CEO of the club. [14]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">P. A. Sangma</span> Indian politician (1947–2016)

Purno Agitok Sangma was an Indian politician who has served as the 4th Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and the 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura in Meghalaya from 2014 to 2016, 1991 to 2008 and from 1977 to 1989 and the minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Rao ministry from 1995 to 1996. He was the founder of National People's Party and co-founder of Nationalist Congress Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Democratic Alliance</span> Indian big tent political coalition lead by BJP

The National Democratic Alliance is an Indian big tent multi-party political alliance, led by the country's biggest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was founded on 15 May 1998. It currently has a majority in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and controls the Government of India as well as the governments of 19 out of 28 Indian states and one Union territory.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trinamool Congress</span> Political party in India

The All India Trinamool Congress is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West Bengal under her leadership. Presently, it is ruling the state of West Bengal beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs just after the BJP and INC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party</span> Political party in India

Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party is a political party in India. It was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961.

United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) is one of two formerly dominant political parties in the Indian state of Goa. UGDP has its base amongst the Christian part of the population. It was founded in 1983 by Churchill Alemao.

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad is an Indian politician and former cricketer, who played seven Test matches and 25 One Day International for the India national cricket team between 1980 and 1986. Azad was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Although India is a parliamentary democracy, the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism, possibly due to the absence of party organizations, independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party, or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national, state, regional, and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers, and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties, other national and regional parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Shiromani Akali Dal, Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal Secular, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Kerala Congress, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Indian Union Muslim League, AIMIM, and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families, mostly those of the party founders.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mukul Roy</span> Indian politician (born 1954)

Mukul Roy is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He has also served as a Minister of State in the Shipping Ministry and later Ministry of Railways during the second UPA government. Before the creation of Trinamool Congress, he was a member of Indian National Congress. Between 2017 and 2021, Roy left Trinamool Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2021, he left BJP and joined TMC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2014 Indian general election</span> Election to Indias National Parliament through direct election

General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 election. Around 23.1 million or 2.71% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections until 2019 election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suvendu Adhikari</span> Indian politician (born 1970)

Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly since 2021 and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Nandigram Assembly constituency since 2021 and from Contai South from 2006 to 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francisco Sardinha</span> Indian politician

Francisco Cosme Sardinha is an Indian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP), representing South Goa Lok Sabha constituency. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Minister of Goa from 24 November 1999 to 23 October 2000 and as the Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly from February 2005 to June 2007. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party having won 6 times as MLA from Curtorim assembly and 4 times as Lok Sabha MP from South Goa constituency.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mausam Noor</span> Indian politician

Mausam Benazir Noor is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and Vice Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Women. She was President of Malda district TMC and a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from 2009 until 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abhishek Banerjee (politician)</span> Indian politician

Abhishek Banerjee is an Indian Politician is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and he is currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal since 2014. Banerjee has also been the President of Trinamool Youth Congress since 2011, the youth wing of the Trinamool Congress, currently in power in West Bengal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election</span> Election in Indian state

The Goa legislative assembly election was held on 3 March 2012, to select the 40 members of the Sixth Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of 5th Goa Legislative Assembly ended in March 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mickky Pacheco</span> Indian politician (born 1964)

Francisco Xavier "Mickky" Pacheco is an Indian politician who is a former three-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly of the Nuvem and Benaulim constituencies and former leader of the Indian National Congress. He held portfolios of Rural Development, Archeology and Archives, Tourism, Captain of Ports, Housing, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Sports and Youth Affairs in the state cabinet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reginaldo Lourenco</span> Indian politician and social worker

Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco also known as Reginaldo is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. He is a four term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly for Curtorim. He has been Chairman of the Goa Industrial Development Corporation since 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arjun Singh (West Bengal politician)</span> Indian politician (born 1962)

Arjun Singh is an Indian politician and a member of parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. He contested the 2019 Indian general election as a BJP candidate and won against TMC candidate Dinesh Trivedi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election</span> Election in Indian state

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Goa on 14 February 2022 to elect 40 members of the Eighth Goa Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022.

Captain Venzy Viegas is an Indian politician and former merchant navy officer who serves as a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly, representing the Benaulim Assembly constituency. A member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), he was elected as the MLA from Benaulim in the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election. Viegas was appointed as the legislative party leader of AAP in Goa Assembly in March 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">7th Goa Assembly</span> Unicameral legislature of the state of Goa in India

The Seventh Goa Assembly was the unicameral legislature of the state of Goa in western India. It consists of 40 members. In charge of the budget, the Assembly appropriates money for social programs, agricultural development, infrastructure development, etc. It was also responsible for proposing and levying taxes.

References

  1. ↑ "Berger bribery scam: Former Goa CM Churchill Alemao's bail plea rejected". Times of India . Archived from the original on 20 August 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  2. 1 2 "India Samachar | News from India | NRI News | Hindi, English Samachar". Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Goa minister Churchill Alemao blames CM for his defeat". Business Standard . Press Trust of India. 8 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "BJP sweeps Goa, Parrikar front runner to become Chief Minister". Ndtv.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Kamat, Prakash (22 March 2014). "Senior Goa Congress leader Churchill Alemao resigns". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Churchill joins Trinamool to contest South". Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Sawaikar overcomes all odds to bag S Goa LS seat". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Herald". Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "Ex-Goa CM Churchill Alemao joins TMC". Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Goa: NCP's Churchill Alemao Announces Merger With TMC". Outlook India. 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  11. ↑ "Churchill Alemao, sole NCP MLA in Goa, joins Trinamool on Mamata Banerjee's visit to state". The Print. 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  12. ↑ "Management - football". Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  13. ↑ Fernandes, Minoo (29 November 2017). "Churchill Brothers SC promise to draw the red line this I-League". navhindtimes.in. Margao: The Navahind Times. Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  14. ↑ "Foreign players should not outnumber Indian players in the league– Churchill Brothers CEO Valanka Alemao". Khelnow.com. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.