[9] Alvares encouraged many volunteers in Bombay to work in hiding from Goa for its freedom.

He helped organise the satyagraha on 15 August 1954, assembling three groups of about 15 satygrahis each who marched to three different parts on the border of Goa.

[10] In June 1957, Alvares was part of a delegation of 11 Goans chosen for consultation by then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Others included Armando Menezes and his brother Nicolau Menezes, along with Luis Gracias, J. N. Heredia, Evágrio Jorge, Vishwanath Lawande, Gerald Pereira, Rama Hegde, Pundalik Gaitonde and Purushottam Kakodkar.

Alvares contested on the PSP ticket but lost, pushed down to the sixth position with only 4% of the votes.