Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: In an interesting development, the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) has decided to go all alone and scrap alliance talks, if any, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, who is in Goa, sparked off alliance talks rumours when he said he would meet MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar. CM Pramod Sawant also said that the BJP was ready for talks with like-minded parties. However, the party’s Central Committee on Tuesday decided against any alliance talks with BJP. MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar said that the Central Committee was of the…
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Sudin Dhavalikar, who was the Dy CM then, was sacked unceremoniously by splitting the two MGP MLAs – Deepak Pauskar and Babu Azgaonkar. Not just MGP, Sawant also sacked Goa Forward MLAs – Vijai Sardesai, Vinod Payekar and Jayesh Salgaocar after engineering a major split in Opposition Congress, he took the decision wherein 10 MLAs joined the BJP in a midnight coup. He also sacked independent MLA Rohan Khaunte. This all happened in 2019. Two years later, the situation is quite different. Sawant is in command but has lost control simply because BJP has failed to follow the “alliance dharma”…
Goemkarponn desk Margao – Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat has said that Goan films must be screened in the official section of IFFI 2021. “It is most unfortunate that BJP Government wakes up every year only after raising our demand for a Special Section for screening Goan Films in the International Film Festival of India. Shockingly, the Chairman of the Entertainment Society of Goa has openly admitted in the section of media that he is unaware of Films produced in Goa after IFFI 2020. I demand that Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant must intervene to ensure the Screening of Goan…
Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Former Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) Councillor Menino D’Cruz has conveyed says he wants to contest on a Congress ticket in Panaji constituency and has accordingly convyed his decsion to the party. “I want to contest elections on Congress ticket in Panjim constituency; it is upto the party to decide on my candidature. If my party does not give me a ticket i will not contest as an independent candidate, i am always a Congress supporter,” said D’Cruz addressing th media He also said that he is ready to support candidature of Utpal Parrikar if…
Salaries hiked from ₹ 16k to ₹ 25k Striking contract teachers withdraw strike after CM hands order increasing remuneration Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant met the striking All Goa Contract Teachers today and handed over the order mentioning a hike in the monthly remuneration from the existing Rs 16,000 to 25,000. The teachers have withdrawn the strike temporarily. “Our government has done everything that we can to help the teachers, and I cannot see teachers striking. Today I have presented them the order which mentions a hike in the monthly remuneration from the existing Rs 16,000 to 25,000,”…
Goemakpronn desk PANAJI: Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Valmiki Naik, Vice President of AAP said, “We have been receiving good responses over the announcement of Teertha Yatra Guarantee. Here the Kejriwal government is fulfilling the spiritual aspirations of the people through Teertha Yatra Guarantee. Kejriwal has revolutionized the education and health sectors in Delhi. He has fulfilled the promise of free electricity and 24*7 water supply. After all of this in Delhi, senior citizen’s also consider Arvind Kejriwal as a son as he has taken care of their day to day and spiritual needs”. Upendra Gaonkar, General Secretary (OBC…
Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: After the state environment department issued orders last month to impose curbs on use of single-use plastic items in government offices, the Goa coastal zone management authority (GCZMA) has decided to push for a similar ban along the state’s coastal stretches. GCZMA has decided at its recent meeting to rope in the Goa state biodiversity board (GSBB) to help raise awareness among businesses run along the state’s coastal stretches. “The authority considered the direction issued by the department of environment & climate change vide circular dated October 18, 2021, concerning the reduction in single-use plastic and felt…