Benaulim constituents, please don’t vote for a party hopper and jail-bird to represent you in the Legislative Assembly – By Nisser Dias.

As dark as Belgium chocolate

1989 --      Churchill Alemao was elected as the Congress candidate.

1990 --       Churchill Alemao splits the Congress to form the Progressive  Democratic Front government in coalition with the Maharashtrawadi     Gomantak Party. Becomes the Chief Minister for 19 days. It is during PDF   government grants to English medium schools were stopped.

1994 --       Churchill Alemao was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the UGDP         candidate. Same year he is arrested for his involvement in gold smuggling       case.

1996 –       Churchill defeats Congress candidate to the Lok Sabha Eduardo Faleiro.

Family Raj begins

 1996 –       Churchill fields his brother Joaquim Alemao in the bye-election of       Benaulim constituency as the UGDP candidate against Congress         candidate and wins.

1999 --       Churchill Alemao wins Assembly elections on Congress ticket. Is         rewarded with the Industries and Tourism ministries.

Beginning of family raj

2002 –       Churchill is sent home by the voters of Benaulim by electing Mickky                Pacheco.

2004 –       Churchill is elected as Member of Parliament on Congress ticket. In a             sting operation conducted then, he is caught on camera purportedly

                   demanding a bribe to take up a project under the MPLAD scheme.

2007 –       Churchill is denied Congress ticket to contest Assembly election. He   resigns from the party and forms Save Goa Front and contests Navelim         constituency and defeats Luizinho Faleiro. Digambar Kamat Congress led     government refuses his support for the government. Attempts a coup to                    topple Kamat and is inducted in the cabinet as PWD minister.



Arrested in the Louis Berger
bribery scam

2012 –       Churchill and his 2 family members contest Assembly elections on      Congress tickets while 1of them contests on NCP ticket. All are defeated.       Churchill       Alemao loses to new entrant Avertano Furtado.

2014 --       Churchill resigns from Congress and contests Parliamentary elections on      Trinamool Congress ticket and is again defeated.

2015 --       Churchill Alemao is arrested for his involvement in the Louis Berger    International bribery scam and released in October the same year.

2016 –       Churchill joins Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to fight the 2017        Assembly election.