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Goa, Daman and Diu Goa, Daman and Diu have been a part of my life since my adolescence for several years. This is despite the fact that I had never visited nor was sure of the exact geographical locations of Daman and Diu tiny territories. Names of these two territories along with Goa have been included in my higher secondary certificate as this public examination was conducted from 1975 to mid-1980s by the Goa, Daman and Diu Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. The only far remote connection I had to Daman and Diu was that these territories were part of Portuguese India, comprising Goa, Daman and Diu for over four and half centuries. This legacy of Portuguese colonialism had kept the three territories united even after Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru through a military action liberated these three areas from the Portuguese rule on December 11, 1961. After their merger into India, Goa, Daman and Diu turned a Union Territory although Goa was on Maharashtra’s coast...

From MGP bastion to BJP ruled state, where is Goa headed now? CAMIL PARKHE |  Tuesday, 31 January 2017 AT 09:16 PM IST          goo.gl/wn5zWN    Goa ,  assembly polls ,  political scenario Goa is the only territory in the country where a referendum was conducted to decide its fate; to exit an an independent entity or to merge into the neighbouring Maharashtra as one of its districts. The referendum was held soon after the liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu from the foreign Portuguese rule in 1961. Besides the referendum, there are many some other characteristics and features which makes this smallest state in the country, a unique territory. During the first two decades after Goa’s liberation, the politics in the erstwhile Union Territory was dominated by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) having support among mainly the Hindus and the United Goans Party which had strong base among the Catholics and the upper caste...