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1.Two threads down, let’s now talk of Goa’s youngest regional party, #RevolutionaryGoans (RG), a group that has effectively funnelled the anxieties of the youth — in a state with dwindling job opportunities — to create an “enemy" out of the outsider.
2.While it’s too early to gauge the journey RG and its 40 candidates will take post #GoaElections2022, the damage its nativism poll plank can do to the vote-share of competing parties cannot be ignored.
Let’s look at the political vacuum in which RG’s journeys began.
Let’s look at the political vacuum in which RG’s journeys began.
3. In March 2017, days after Goa had voted, seven young men took to scrubbing the walls of Panjim municipal market to erase tobacco stains off a Mario Miranda-inspired mural. They identified themselves as "Revolutionary Goans”, scrubbing to “safeguard Goan culture”.
