A GOAN RECIPE FOR TROUBLE

A tribal minister leaves the Pramod Sawant regime red-faced with allegations of graft. What simmers beneath the surface is an unmet Adivasi manifesto

- By Dhaval S. Kulkarni

ITS 3,702 SQ.KM and 1.6 million residents form just 0.1 per cent each of India's land area and population. But Goa punches way above its weight in terms of political potboiler action. The latest: the acute mortification facing the Pramod Sawant government after one of its own ministers-a member of the ruling BJP at that-charged it with graft and malfeasance. What's worse, the impugned department, tribal welfare, is held by Sawant himself. Enough to speculate that something more than probity may be at stake.

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