Goa, Dec. 18 -- The zilla panchayat (ZP) battle in Salcete has emerged as one of the most complex and closely watched con tests in the ongoing local body elections, with frag mented fights, prominent candidates and competing party strategies converging across all nine constituen cies in the taluka. What distinguishes Sal cete from many other re gions is the absence of straightforward two-way contests. Instead, most seats are witnessing trian gular - and in some cases multi-cornered - battles involving the Congress, the Goa Forward Party (GFP), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP, and a clutch of influential independents, making outcomes difficult to predict. A key factor reshaping the contests is the understand ing between the Congress and...