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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: BJP’S Cuncolim Candidate Clafasio Dias attributed his loss to the Church instead of BJP. Dias also said that Congress reached out to the people significantly. “Congress reached out to people, and church opposed BJP party. That was a disadvantage,” Dias said He further added that his defection from Congress to join BJP in 2019 along with ten other Congress MLAs who had not affected the poll results in any way. “I have done all the developmental works in my constituency, and still people voted for Congress; some people also worked against me,” he said. Dias said that…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: BJP’s Siolim Candidate Dayanand Mandrekar has called Michael Lobo a magician for just coming in 3 months before the elections and winning the seat for his wife. “I cannot believe what Lobo has done, and I do not know how people believed him. he just worked three months before the elections, and his wife, this is jaadu and bhool bhulaiya,” said Mandrekar when asked about his defeat He further said that Lobo has worked and used his different magical tricks. “Lobo used development as a trick to win the seat, and the same was done by Vinod…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: BJP’s St. Andre Candidate Francisco Silveira said that Goans settled in London were responsible for his defeat. Silveira also claimed that Londonkar’s campaigned for an RGP candidate. “Londonkar’s supported RGP candidate in a big way and even warned their families to vote for RG candidate if they want financial support,” said Silveira. He further said that there is a huge population from St Andre, which is settled in London. “Some people who were given jobs support and worked against me in my constituency,’ he added. Silveira claimed that his own supporters were seen dangling around at RG…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: BJP’S Margao Candidate Manohar Ajgaonkar said that the party told him to contest at Margao, which led to his loss in the recently held elections. Babu also claimed that he sacrificed his seat for the BJP. “One has to sacrifice for the party; Pernem was my seat. I had developed the constituency, which was a backward constituency,” said Ajgaonkar. He further said that the party asked him to contest from Margao, which was not his seat. “One has to sacrifice for the party,” said Babu,” he added Ajgaonkar said that he lost the battle after BJP decided…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Small Industries Association has made a charter of demands for the new Government, which includes Ease of doing business, Appointment of Chairmen for Corporations, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Employment generation, Public Transport and Hostel Facility and Regulatory Compliances and Inspections. The GSIA ina. press release here said that Goa’s economy mainly depends on the mining, tourism and manufacturing sectors. In the past, mining was the major contributor to State’s revenue, and other sectors were not given the desired attention by the State Government. “With mining operations coming to a standstill and the tourism sector not…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Several residents of Palolem on Friday received heavily infested, filthy and muddy portable Water-supply as the angry residents marched to question and later brought the PWD officials for site inspection. On observing the heavily mud-infested water running in the residential taps, the Officials, including PWD (Water-supply) AE Lester D’souza, regretted the muddy Water Supply as a ‘Wash-Out’ accidentally released/entering the distribution lines of residential taps. ‘We have now found the dead-end, and accordingly needful is done. Now, no more muddy water will come in any supply lines, anywhere’, informed a PWD Officer in the presence of Congress…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Major public utility projects such as Kadamba bus stand, Fires station, fish market, etc. will be taken up immediately. A special meeting to discuss and decide about parking issue, stray cattle management and beautification of Vasco will be held by Tuesday informed Vasco MLA Salkar. Newly elected BJP MLA of Vasco, Krishna (Daji) Salkar told Goemkarponn reporter that he will call a meeting with the councillors to discuss and decide about the chronic problems faced by the Vasco citizens in day to day life. He said that Vasco has remained backwards and underdeveloped for the past ten…