AERIAL VIEW Today’s development of Eight Congress MLAs splitting and joining the BJP came as a surprise to many. The BJP already has 20 seats in the House, plus there is the support of two MGP MLAs, and additional three independent MLAs have extended their support. The total strength in the House is 25. However, with the eight MLAs’ induction, BJP now has a Brute Majority of 33 in the House. Was this needed? Yes, for BJP, it was needed as in 2024, every single Lok Sabha seat is important, and they do not want to take any chances. SURAJ…
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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Congress, which is bidding for the revival of the party after a spate of defeats in the states, has been dealt another blow with 8 MLAs splitting the party and joining the ruling BJP. However, one glaring point is that whoever becomes the leader of the Opposition quits away the party and takes away the chunk of MLAs along with him. This seems to have raised a major question at the State and national levels. While in 2018, it was Chandrakant Kavlekar (Babu) who led the coup with 10 MLAs to join the BJP. Come 2022,…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Eight Congress MLAs, including former CM Digambar Kamat and leader of the opposition Michael Lobo, have joined the BJP today in Goa in the presence of Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant. With the shift of eight MLAs, Congress has reduced to three MLAs in the state. BJP, which has 20 MLAs out of 25 MLAs of NDA, has improved its number. The MLAs who joined the saffron party include Digambar Kamat, Michael Lobo, Delilah Lobo, Rajesh Phaldesai, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Aleixo Sequeira and Rudolf Fernandes. They also met with CM Pramod Sawant before joining the party.…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: After 17 long years, when he left the party in February 2005, stating he felt suffocated in the BJP, the Margao MLA Digambar Vasantrao Kamat has embraced the BJP once again. In 2005, Digambar Kamat – number 2 in Manohar Parrikar’s cabinet, defected to Congress and toppled BJP. Two years later, he was made the Chief Minister of Goa from 2007-2012. When asked about today’s defection to the BJP he said, “an individual takes a decision as per the prevailing political situation.” He said the condition of the BJP is bad, and there is no sight of…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Goa Forward Party (GFP) President Vijai Sardesai today said that eight legislators who have decided, against all political propriety, basic decency and honesty, to pursue their greed for wealth and hunger for power stand today as the symbols of pure evil. “The people of Goa are backstabbed, and their faith destroyed first by oaths and then this betrayal, and they will note that this act of perfidy comes on the Hindu auspicious period of Pitru Paksa when these MLAs chose to repay their debts to their ancestors in this devious and false-hearted manner,” said Sardesai He further…
Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: Days after the famous Curlies restaurant was razed, the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) has now turned its focus on the “iconic” Souza Lobo restaurant on Calangute beach. On Tuesday, the GCZMA issued directions to demolish illegal constructions of the metal stage on the beach of approximately 80 sq meters illegally erected laterite masonry compound wall height.9 meters and length of nine meters, constructed along the eastern boundary of the plot, illegally placed stone pavers as a pathway on the beach in NDZ area in the property bearing Survey No 176/17 of Calangute Village. The GCZMA…
Goemkarponn desk SANGUEM: Sanguem Police have issued warrants against four persons causing obstruction to surveyors and threatening them while demarcating the IIT institute building. As per information, warrants have been issued against Joesph Fernandes, Maria Vaz, Philip Vaz and Swizelle Cruz. Police have also arrested Joseph Fernandes under section 186, 506 (ii) R/w 34 IPC. A tense situation was witnessed at Sanguem yesterday as local farmers tried an attempt to stop the ongoing demarcation process for the IIT Goa campus. The farmers confronted survey officials who were demarcating land at the proposed IIT site and demanded that they furnish the…