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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Yeshwant Candolkar is appointed as the Block Committee’s President. Sudesh Shirodkar and Gurudas Malvankar are the new General Secretaries, while Shushant Matkar, Shri Sagar Divkar and Shri Laxman Parab are the Vice Presidents. Parab has been the former Sarpanch of Calangute Village Panchayat. Sadanand Narvekar, Ramkrishna Kandolkar and Ulhas Shirodkar are appointed as the Block Committee’s Secretaries. Tulsidas Mandrekar, Gajanan Pednekar, Uday Gadekar, Latest Palkar, Shei Dnayeshwar Matkar, Mahesh Chari, Dayanand Naik and Sanjeev Verlekar are the Members of the Committee. The BJP has also formed a new Youth Committee, Mahila Morcha and Minority Morcha. Siddik Ankush…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: Friends turned foes, former Maharashtravadi Gomantak Party (MGP) leader Lavu Mamledar and the present MGP leader Sudin Dhavlikar are pitched against each other for this assembly election. Lavu vows to defeat his former friend Sudin Dhavlikar in Dhavlikar’s home ground. Once friends have now turned foes have become a topic of hot discussion at every nook and corner of Marcaim after the announcement of Congress Party list of candidates wherein Ponda former MGP MLA Lavu Mamlatdar has been declared as Candidate from Marcaim. It will be interesting to see how Lavu would garner votes from Marcaim, the…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA – Often tagged as the heritage building of Canacona, the Portuguese-era building housing Canacona Municipality has been finally taken up for demolition to make way for a two-storey modern administrative cum commercial, the municipal building at Chaudi. After removing the roof and dismantling electrical appliances and gadgets, workers were also seen shifting the old records and registers, besides electric gadgets such as Fans and Tubelights, to the adjoining IDMST building. ‘As the removal of roof-portions including wooden planks is on the way, it’s hardly a matter of time that the building walls will be razed down to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced Amit Palekar as the party’s CM face. Kejriwal also claimed that the Bhandari community who were hurt at being ignored in Goa was included. “Goa wants a change, and AAP has been getting a tremendous response in the coastal state. People are impressed with the Delhi governance model; the party has given tickets to the fresh faces across the state. Palekar is a new face for Goa,” said Kejriwal after announcing CM Candidate. Hailing Palekar’s activism and his recent hunger strike to conserve…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Bombay High Court at Goa on Wednesday agreed with the petitioner’s contention that the disqualification petition against ten ex-Congress MLAs will not impact the prospect of these incumbent legislators, who are now part of BJP, during the February polls. The Division Bench hearing the disqualification petition filed by Congress President Girish Chodankar against ten of its former MLAs said that the petition’s outcome will have a wider impact across country. The matter will now be heard on February 1, along with the MGP petition filed against two of its former legislators. Chodankar has challenged the Speaker’s…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Alleging that BJP has stifled the democracy of Goa and has assaulted the environment, the Chairman of All India Professionals’ Congress, Dr Shashi Tharoor, on Tuesday promised to address all the issues grappled with Goa, that too due to faulty policies of the saffron party. Tharoor was interacting with people of Goa on Tuesday over Digital Town Hall. Former Minister, Working President TPCC In-Charge Dr. J Geeta Reddy, GPCC President Girish Chodankar, Goa In charge Dinesh Gundu Rao, Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, Chairman of GPCC Professional Congress Elvis Gomes and others participated. “Irrespective of caste, creed,…

“See, Delhi government is a union territory. Annually, they get 20,000 cr from the Centre as a grant, and they can afford to give free electricity. They get so much money from the Centre that they can put it up for so many things. Is Kejriwal giving from his pocket? He is giving it from the State Treasury only. Also, Delhi is a cosmopolitan city, and the government’s income is high, but Goa is different. Here every govt has been taking loans, not just this govt. The loans taken by past govt’s are paid now by us. There is nothing…