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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Churchill Braz Alemao
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|5|16}}
| birth_place =[[Carmona, Goa]], [[Portuguese India]]
| residence = Varca
| death_date =
| death_place =
| constituency = [[Navelim]]
| office = 4th [[Chief Minister of Goa]]
| term_start = 27 March 1990
| term_end = 14 April 1990
| governor = [[Gopal Singh (politician)|Gopal Singh]]
| predecessor = ''[[Pratapsingh Rane]]''
| successor = ''[[Luis Proto Barbosa]]''
| office1 = [[17th Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament<br>Lok Sabha]]
| term_start1 = 2004
| term_end1 = 2007
| predecessor1 = [[Ramakant Angle]]
| successor1 = [[Francisco Sardinha]]
| constituency1 = [[South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)|South Goa]]
| term_start2 = 1996
| term_end2 = 1998
| predecessor2 = [[Eduardo Faleiro]]
| successor2 = [[Francisco Sardinha]]
| constituency2 = [[South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)|South Goa]]
| office3 = Member of the [[Goa Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start3 = 2017
| term_end3 =
| predecessor3 = [[Caetano Silva (politician)|Caetano Silva]]
| successor3 =
| constituency3 = [[Benaulim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Benaulim]]
| termstart4 = 2007
| term_end4 = 2012
| predecessor4 = [[Luizinho Faleiro]]
| successor4 = [[Avertano Furtado]]
| constituency4 = [[Navelim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Navelim]]
| term_start5 = 1999
| term_end5 = 2002
| predecessor5 = [[Joaquim Alemao]]
| successor5 = [[Francisco Pacheco (politician)|Francisco Pacheco]]
| constituency5 = [[Benaulim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Benaulim]]
| termstart6 = 1989
| term_end6 = 1996
| predecessor6 = [[Francisco Monte Cruz]]
| successor6 = [[Joaquim Alemao]]
| constituency6 = [[Benaulim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Benaulim]]

| party =[[All India Trinamool Congress]]
| spouse = Smt. Fatima Fernandes Alemao
| children = 1 son (Savio Valen Alemao) and 5 daughters (Valanka Alemao, Sharon Alemao, Aninha Alemao, Sara Anina Alemao, Wanda Alemao)
| relatives = Ciabro Alemao, Late. Alvernaz Alemao, Roosevelt Alemao, [[Joaqium Alemao]], Kennedy Alemao (all brothers)
| website =
| footnotes =
| date = 25 February |
| year = 2006 |
| source =
}}

'''Churchill Braz Alemao''' (born 16 May 1949) is a former [[List of Chief Ministers of Goa|Chief Minister]] and former MP of the 14th [[Lok Sabha]] of India. He is the current MLA of [[Benaulim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Benaulim constituency]] in the state of [[Goa]].

==Political career==
Alemao was chief minister of Goa for a brief period in the early 1990s, and later became an MP representing the [[South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)]] from 1996 to 1998.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Berger-bribery-scam-Former-Goa-CM-Churchill-Alemaos-bail-plea-rejected/articleshow/48513446.cms |title=Berger bribery scam: Former Goa CM Churchill Alemao's bail plea rejected |newspaper=[[Times of India]]| accessdate=30 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150820214237/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Berger-bribery-scam-Former-Goa-CM-Churchill-Alemaos-bail-plea-rejected/articleshow/48513446.cms |archive-date=2015-08-20}}</ref>

===Founding United Goans Democratic Party===
Alemao founded the [[United Goans Democratic Party]] as an spinoff of the [[United Goans Party]].

===Congress Days===
In the late 1980s, Alemao quit the United Goans Democratic Party and joined the [[Indian National Congress]]. He became Chief Minister for a 18 days as part of the [[Progressive Democratic Front, Goa|Progressive Democratic Front]] led by Congress. He had to resign due to an internal split in the party. After that [[Luis Proto Barbosa]] became chief minister. Later, Alemao became an MP as Congress leader.

===Save Goa Front===
In March 2007, Alemao quit Congress and formed a regional party, the [[Save Goa Front]]. The party contested 17 seats and won 2, including his seat and [[Reginaldo Lourenco Aleixo]]'s. After the election, no party won a majority and the Save Goa Front joined the Congress-led alliance to form a government.

===Return to Congress===
In January 2008, Alemao merged the Save Goa Front with Congress. He continued as an MLA and Minister in Goa during this period.

===March 2012 elections===
In the March 2012 elections to the [[Legislative Assembly of Goa]], Alemao lost to independent candidate Avertano Furtado by a margin of over 2000 votes.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.samachar.com/Live-Goa-ExCM-Churchill-Alemao-family-lose-mdgoMTfafig.html |title=India Samachar | News from India | NRI News | Hindi, English Samachar |accessdate=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505200254/http://www.samachar.com/Live-Goa-ExCM-Churchill-Alemao-family-lose-mdgoMTfafig.html |archivedate=5 May 2014 }}</ref> His brother [[Joaqium Alemao]], who was then Minister in the [[Government of Goa]], also lost as he could not retain his [[Cuncolim]] constituency.<ref name="auto"/> Churchill Alemao's daughter Valanka and Joaquim's son Yuri also lost the 2012 elections.<ref name="auto1">{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/goa-minister-churchill-alemao-blames-cm-for-his-defeat-112030800121_1.html|title=Goa minister Churchill Alemao blames CM for his defeat|agency=Press Trust of India|date=8 March 2012|accessdate=30 May 2018|newspaper=[[Business Standard]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901113202/https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/goa-minister-churchill-alemao-blames-cm-for-his-defeat-112030800121_1.html#|archive-date=1 September 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> All four candidates from the Alemao family suffered defeat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/assembly-polls/bjp-sweeps-goa-parrikar-front-runner-to-become-chief-minister-183334|title=BJP sweeps Goa, Parrikar front runner to become Chief Minister|website=Ndtv.com|accessdate=30 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505194735/http://www.ndtv.com/article/assembly-polls/bjp-sweeps-goa-parrikar-front-runner-to-become-chief-minister-183334#|archive-date=5 May 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> Churchill Alemao later blamed the then [[Chief Minister of Goa]], [[Digambar Kamat]] and the Electronic [[Voting Machines]] for his defeat.<ref name="auto1"/>

===Entry into the All India Trinamool Congress===
In 2014, after his daughter Valanka Alemao was denied candidature by the [[Indian National Congress]] party in the elections to the [[16th Lok Sabha]] from the [[South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)|South Goa]], Alemao resigned from the [[Indian National Congress]] and announced that he would contest the polls as an independent candidate.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/senior-goa-congress-leader-churchill-alemao-resigns/article5818726.ece|title=Senior Goa Congress leader Churchill Alemao resigns|first=Prakash|last=Kamat|date=22 March 2014|accessdate=30 May 2018|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505202303/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/senior-goa-congress-leader-churchill-alemao-resigns/article5818726.ece#|archive-date=5 May 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?newsid=4932 |title=Churchill joins Trinamool to contest South |access-date=5 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505203431/http://www.goanews.com/news_disp.php?newsid=4932 |archive-date=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Two days later, Alemao joined the [[All India Trinamool Congress]] and was formally inducted in the party by [[Madan Mitra]], a Minister of State in the [[Government of West Bengal]]. He contested the elections to the [[16th Lok Sabha]] from the [[South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)]] as a candidate of the [[All India Trinamool Congress]] and was defeated by [[Narendra Keshav Sawaikar]] of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. Alemao polled 11,941<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/sawaikar-overcomes-all-odds-bag-s-goa-ls-seat |title=Sawaikar overcomes all odds to bag S Goa LS seat |access-date=18 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517211414/http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/sawaikar-overcomes-all-odds-bag-s-goa-ls-seat |archive-date=17 May 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> votes in these elections.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://heraldgoa.in/News/Main%20Page%20News/Churchill-Alemao-to-join-Trinamool/86927.html |title=Herald |access-date=5 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505194129/http://heraldgoa.in/News/Main%20Page%20News/Churchill-Alemao-to-join-Trinamool/86927.html |archive-date=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-03-25/news/48558991_1_tmc-leader-south-goa-daughter-valanka |title=Ex-Goa CM Churchill Alemao joins TMC |access-date=5 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505194152/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-03-25/news/48558991_1_tmc-leader-south-goa-daughter-valanka |archive-date=5 May 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===Joining Nationalist Congress Party===
On 17 October 2016 Alemao joined the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] (NCP) and declared his intent to contest the election on the NCP ticket. He won the [[Benaulim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Benaulim]] seat in [[2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election]].

===Return to AITC===
Alemao again joined AITC on 13 December 2021.<ref>{{cite web|date=13 December 2021|title=Goa: NCP’s Churchill Alemao Announces Merger With TMC|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-goa-ncps-churchill-alemao-announces-merger-with-tmc/404880|work=Outlook India|access-date=13 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=13 December 2021|title=Churchill Alemao, sole NCP MLA in Goa, joins Trinamool on Mamata Banerjee’s visit to state|url=https://theprint.in/politics/churchill-alemao-sole-ncp-mla-in-goa-joins-trinamool-on-mamata-banerjees-visit-to-state/780879/|work=The Print|access-date=13 December 2021}}</ref>

==Football==
The football team [[Churchill Brothers]] is owned by Alemao's family.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.churchillbrothersgoa.com/management/ |title=Management - football |access-date=5 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917030555/http://www.churchillbrothersgoa.com/management/ |archive-date=17 September 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Chief Ministers of Goa}}

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[[Category:14th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Goa]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:11th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Goa]]
[[Category:All India Trinamool Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Goa]]
[[Category:Corruption in Goa]]
[[Category:Indian prisoners and detainees]]
[[Category:Members of the Goa Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:1949 births]]
[[Category:Goa MLAs 2017–2022]]
[[Category:People from Benaulim]]
[[Category:Indian politicians convicted of crimes]]
[[Category:United Goans Democratic Party politicians]]

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