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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who arrives late at night from Delhi, informed that the BJP’s final list of candidates will be announced on January 19. CM Sawant and BJP State President Sadanand Tanavade, and BJP Organisation Secretary Satish Dhond had gone to New Delhi to attend the BJP’s parliamentary board meeting. “The final list of candidates will be out on January 19; we had gone to Delhi to discuss on the election strategies and also the BJP wanted to review poll preparedness in the state,” said CM Sawant He further said that the state unit is fully…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut today said that former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s son should be given the opportunity to contest from Panaji in the upcoming Goa assembly elections. “Manohar Parrikar contributed to Goa’s development, but his family faced disrespect after his demise. Utpal Parrikar, his son, must be given a ticket from Panaji. Every political party contesting polls must support him and bring him to power,” Raut said. He further added that every political party contesting polls must support him and bring him to power. Shiv Sena was ready to support the candidature of former…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco today tendered his resignation from primary membership of Trinamool Congress party. Reginaldo had left Congress and joined TMC on December 20, 2021. Goa in-charge and TMC Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra confirmed his resignation. “AITC has received a letter from Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco resigning from primary membership of the party. We had welcomed him into the party as we have countless others. Now that he wishes to leave, we wish him well,” said Moitra. Reginaldo was MLA from Curtorim and former working president of Congress before he resigned as a member of the state…

Goemkarponn Desk COLVA: Two on-duty police constables died after being knocked down by a drunk driver in the beach village of Colva in South Goa early on Sunday morning. According to officials at the Colva police station, the deceased police personnel Shailesh Gaonkar (30) and Vishwas Deykar (32) were posted on a check-point at Colva when they were knocked down by a speeding Skoda car driven by one Craig Rodrigues. “Both police constables died while they were being taken to the nearest hospital for treatment,” a Goa Police spokesperson said, Police informed that the accused was found driving under the…

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…