Churchill Alemao may face challenge to create a toe-hold for TMC in Goa

Alemao was first elected MLA on a Congress ticket in 1989

He has been a chief minister, a member of Parliament, a minister in the state Cabinet, a member of the Legislative Assembly, a Congress leader, a member of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the patron of one of the country’s moderately successful football clubs. He also has interests in real estate, hospitality, and the fishing trawler industry. Churchill Alemao, MLA in the Goa Assembly, who recently jumped ship from the NCP to the Trinamool Congress (TMC), is a colourful character, to say the least.

Ask Alemao about his life and he will tell you that he started out as a casual