[4][5] It was revived by Pacheco, who left the Nationalist Congress Party and joined the GVP ahead of the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election.
[6] It is a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
[2] The GVP has two members in the Goa Legislative Assembly: Pacheco from Nuvem but he resigned[8] and Caetano Silva from Benaulim.
[10] In November 2014, Pacheco was inducted as a minister in the state cabinet; the step was seen as a "thank you" to the GVP for its support to the BJP in the 2014 Indian general election.
[2] However, Pacheco resigned from the post in April 2015 after getting convicted by the Supreme Court of India for assaulting a government official.