Large-scale shift of traditional Curchorem BJP voters to Congress cause of concern for party

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Large-scale shift of traditional Curchorem BJP voters to Congress cause of concern for party

Nilesh Cabral, the power minister in the outgoing government, who had won the 2017 assembly polls by a mammoth margin of 9,000-odd votes, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the 2022 polls as Amit Patkar, a political greenhorn fielded by Congress, lost the battle by a slender margin of 672 votes. With Congress having come within sniffing distance of victory, political observers say these are worrying signs for BJP in Curchorem.