[1] Ferreira contested on Indian National Congress ticket in the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election and emerged victorious.

He defeated two term Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Glenn Ticlo by a margin of 1,823 votes.

[5] Ferreira has also held the positions of the State Public Prosecutor in the Bombay High Court in Goa and has also served as the Assistant Solicitor General of India under the Indian National Congress headed by the then India Prime minister Manmohan Singh from 2004 to 2014.

[2] Ferreira is married to Natasha Da Costa, a social worker by profession in January 1995.

[2] Ferreira began his career as a lawyer in 1987 after graduating from Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law in Margao.