In the late 1980s, Alemao quit the United Goans Democratic Party and joined the Indian National Congress.

After the election, no party won a majority and the Save Goa Front joined the Congress-led alliance to form a government.

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.

[4][3] Churchill Alemao later blamed the then Chief Minister of Goa, Digambar Kamat and the Electronic Voting Machines for his defeat.

[5][6] 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.