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46 years on, ex-CM says Centre rigged Goa 'Independence"
January 10, 2013
Fifty one years after Goa was liberated from Portuguese rule, a former Chief Minister has raked up a controversy alleging that the "opinion poll" held 46 years ago to decide on making it a separate state or merge with Maharashtra was "rigged." Shashikala Kakodkar, a former state

Chief Minister herself and daughter of Goa's first CM Dayanand Bandodkar, claimed yesterday that the "opinion poll" conducted by the Indira Gandhi-led Central government on January 16, 1967, was "rigged." Read
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