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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday unveiled his party’s ’13-point Goa Model’ ahead of the state assembly elections.  Kejriwal said If AAP forms the government, then every Goan family will get a benefit of 10 lakh over five years. Spelling out details about his ‘Goa Model’, Kejriwal said it will have a 13-point agenda which will include providing jobs for the Goan youth. He said, “Upon gaining power, AAP will provide government jobs on a merit basis, as well as unemployment allowance of Rs. 3000 each until they find work”. Moreover, he promised…

With the assembly elections scheduled on February 14, Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal along with the party’s leaders held a door-to-door campaign at St. Andre and Siroda and received an overwhelming response from the people of both the constituencies. Kejriwal landed at Dabolim on Saturday afternoon and kicked off a door-to-door campaign from St. Andre along with St. Andre candidate Ramrao Wagh, AAP Goa convener Rahul Mhambre and AAP leader Amit Palekar. Then held a door-to-door campaign in Siroda along with AAP Siroda candidate Mahadev Naik and other AAP leaders on Saturday. While doing…

Now the question is, while Congress seems to be in a dominating position, why should it forge an alliance with a party which has no stake in Goa? Why would Congress tie-up with the party which poached its MLAs and leaders? The TMC’s proposal seems to be an over-optimistic one. The party does not have any base in Goa, and ever since it came to the State three months ago, it has only been involved in poaching or “buying” of MLAs and local leaders. Surely, the Prashant Kishore strategy has fallen flat in Goa and to overcome this defeat, they…

Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: Dr Venkatesh Hedge has said that Omicron is not a deadly virus though it spreads fast. He also said that the Omicron virus will not create serious patients or deaths as the Delta variant did. “Dr. Shekhar Salkar has rightly said that by 20th to 30th of January, the number of cases of Omicron will rise to the maximum. He has rightly made the people aware of the Omicron Wave, but one thing he has not mentioned is that Omicron is not a deadly virus though it spreads fast but will not create any deaths nor serious…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In a significant development, the Indian National Congress has turned down the offer of alliance from the Trinamool Congress. Congress has not just rejected the offer from the TMC but has also accused the West Bengal based party of dividing the Congress votes. TMC leader Mahua Moitra had said that the AITC already made a formal & definitive offer to INC on Goa to defeat BJP. “INC leadership asked for time to revert. This was almost 2 weeks ago 3 If Mr Chidambaram not aware of details, he should talk to his leadership rather than making these…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal today arrived in Goa on a two day visit ahead of assembly polls in the state scheduled to take place this February. Kejriwal kicked off the ‘Door to Door’ campaign of the party at St Andre and Shiroda constituencies. Kejriwal also exhorted party workers to take election campaigning as “an opportunity to serve people,” Kejriwal said that the AAP was contesting the polls to root out “a corrupt party” and install an “honest one”. Later on January 16, the AAP national convener will hold a…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: As per the Forest Survey of India (IFSR), 2021, Goa has a total mangrove cover of 27 sq km, which has gone up by 1 sq km over the last year. As per the IFSR report, Goa’s mangrove cover has doubled since 2009. “Goa has a total mangrove cover of 27 sq km, which has gone up by 1 sq km over the last one year. However, Goa does not have any mangrove patches categorized as ‘very dense’,” the IFSR report states. Further, of the 27 sq km of mangroves, 21 sq km are ‘moderately dense’ mangroves,…