Goa is a land of susegad hearts but volcanic political undercurrents. Behind the coconut trees, church bells, and shoreline smiles lies a political ecosystem that has always been vulnerable to one chronic disease: the dominance of a handful of political families. It is a problem that has infected Goan politics since the first MLA discovered that being a “people’s representative” was less about people and more about cementing family legacies. And if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) does not correct its trajectory now, it risks making the same historic mistake that crushed the credibility of its rivals – allowing Goa’s political future to become a private estate managed by a few dynasties.

Let’s be clear: power in Goa has never been about ideology. It has been about inheritance. Congress pe

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