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Goemkarponn Desk Panaji:Aam Aadmi Party has declared Matilda D’Silva to be its candidate at the Navelim Zilla Panchayat elections. Matilda has been very actively taking up issues of the needy and poor in the village besides also working for construction or repair of roads. She is so active in preserving environment and nature that she is a member of the state biodiversity board. She has been promoting AAP agenda and programs since 2016 and that is why has been nominated as AAP candidate. Just as Benaulim elected a new face Hanzel Fernandes AAP hoped Navelim will elect Matilda

Goemkarponn Desk Panaji: Aam Aadmi Party while terming the High Court order over municipal elections as a tight slap on the Dr Pramod Sawant Government advised the chief minister not to resort to malpractices like rigging elections to win them. AAP Goa Convener Rahul Mhambre said the High Court order clearly indicates that the BJP was trying to rig the elections to favour their supporters and well wishers as delimitation and reservation of wards was done without following the constitutional mandate. He pointed out that the High Court has directed the government to set a new election schedule in five…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Following High Court order, the State Election Commission has kept in abyeance the election process in Margao, Mapusa, Mormugao, Sanguem & Quepem Municipal councils till futher orders. Also the Model code of conduct has been lifted with immediate effect in these areas. “Goa State Election Commission in exercise of the powers conferred upon it under Article 2432A of the Constitution of India read with Section 10A of the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 clo hereby direct that the t.ntire election process for Mormugao, Margao, Mapusa, Quepem and Sanguem Municipal Councils shall be kept in abeyance till further orders,”…

SANGUEM: Citing an example of mining closure in Goa by the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, the president of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Girish Chodankar said that the main agenda of RSS is to deprive poor people from source of income to have control over them and make its own source, to garner votes, to favor BJP on the name of ‘Hinduism’. He alsi said that PM Narendra Modi is trying to give 40 lakh cr agri-business to 5 capitalist families. He was speaking at the Kissan Sammelan held in Sanguem. The Goa Pradesh Congress and Goa Pradesh Kissan Congress…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: COVID-19 vaccination drive for senior citizens and those above the age of 45-59 with comorbidites today began at 37 centres across Goa. The vaccination drive began at 37 centres across the state which includes Goa Medical College (GMC), South Goa District Hospital and Ponda Sub District Hospital. “Each centre has the capacity to administer 100 doses per day during the prescribed time; a meeting would soon be convyed to get private hospitals on baord,” said health officials Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker, Rajesh Patnekar and BJP Leader Satish Dhond were among others leaders who were administered with the…

Goemkarponn Desk MARGAO: Goa Forward Party (GFP) Vijai Sardesai today has demanded resignation of Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant; says he has no moral right to continue in chair post High Court order on reservation. Addressing the media, Sardesai said that the government machinery stands completely exposed post High Court order CM Sawant has no moral right to continue in the chair. “Sawant should immediately resign as Chief Minister; the government tried to hoodwink the court through its unconstitutional decisions,” said Sardesai He further said that despite the petitions pending before court, the government forced State Election Commission (SEC) to…

Goemkarponn desk Siolim: The Sarpanch of Village Panchayat Siolim-Marna has filed a complaint against the villagers for for mischievous cancellation of signatures on the Grâmsabha proceeding Book. The complaint to Anjuna police station says that that the Village Panchayat of Siolim-Marna held its Gramsabha meeting on 28th February 2021. “After the meeting started the V.P Secretary Subhash Kambli read the minutes of the previous Gramsabha held on 19/1/2020. While reading the proposals some Gramsabha members Udesh Pangam resident of Vaddy and Manny Pereira -Igrej Vaddo-Marna and others joined to object to the signing on the proceeding register informing the Sarpanch…