The wonderfully ironic inscription — Aiz Maka, Falea Tuka (literally ‘Today, me; Tomorrow, you!’) — on the gate of the graveyard of St. Thomas Church in North Goa’s Aldona sounds like the title of a Spaghetti western.
Yet, this tongue-in-cheek aphorism about human mortality, accurately encapsulates the see-saw politics of rapidly shifting fortunes often played out in the verdant coastal State of Goa (in western India) as both the North and South Goa Lok Sabha seats — the only parliamentary constituencies of the State — go to polls in the third phase on May 7.
With an electorate of a little more than 11 lakh and a total 16 candidates from six parties in the fray, the ruling BJP and the Congress remain the major players in the State’s political landscape.
