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Goemkarponn desk BENAULIM: Impressed by the Aam Aadmi Party’s vision for the business community and AAP Benaulim candidate Venzy Viegas’s vision for Benaulim constituency, prominent businessmen from Benaulim on Friday endorsed AAP leader Venzy Viegas and encouraged Benaulim residents to support the AAP. Benaulim businessmen stated that they did not receive the support they expected from the government to run their business in the area. Therefore, they urge the Benaulim people to support AAP to bring about change in the constituency. Joe Periera, an entrepreneur from Benaulim, said, “I’ve been in the business for 15 years, and I’m being harassed…

AERIAL VIEW So if you consider the situation, it is clear the BJP is meeting out injustice to Utpal. However, on the other hand, it is correct because Babush, despite all his escapades and alleged criminal antecedents, is a winnable candidate and influences the entire Tiswadi taluka. His wife, Jennifer Monseratte, is an MLA from Taleigao; his close friends Francis Silveira and Tony Fernandes are MLAs of St Andre and St Cruz, respectively. If Babush is denied a ticket, it would obviously face major issues in all these constituencies, which BJP would never want after the peculiar situation in Bardez…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With elections slated for exactly a month from today, Goa is staring at another peak of COVID19, considering that the rallies and meeting would start as campaigning hots up. On Thursday, Covid positivity rate hit whooping 39.41 % today, with 3728 of the 9459 samples testing positive for covid. With 971 recoveries active covid count of the State has reached 16,887. Incidentally, total covid cases in Goa since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 has crossed the 2 lakh mark and stand at 1,00,824. The President of the Goa Association of Resident Doctors (GARD), Dr…

Goemkarponn desk CURCHOREM: There is a strong sense of ambiguity in the Congress block Curchorem leaders about who will be the Congress candidate from the Curchorem constituency. With the Assembly election approaching fast, some active Congress workers are waiting eagerly when the state Congress committee will announce its candidature in Curchorem. The delay in announcing the Congress candidate in Curchorem has become a matter of concern among some senior Congress supporters and the workers from Curchorem. Discussions on this issue within the Congress block and outside the Congress circle are ongoing in full swing. It is well known that there…

Goemkarponn desk CALANGUTE: Former Vice President of GPCC Agnelo Fernandes, Panch & former Panch of Calangute Anthony Menezes and Joseph Sequeira joined Goa TMC in Calangute with 300 plus people in the presence of Mahua Moitra, Churchill Alemao and Kiran Kandolkar. Addressing the media, Agnelo Fernandes said that their enemy is the BJP, and the people of Calangute should vote for the TMC for better prospects. “Our enemy is the BJP, and we will fight it out; Who is the choice of Congress? If Michael Lobo wins, he will again join the BJP; we must take concrete steps to fight…

Goemkarponn desk CURCHOREM: Curchorem constituency right now is witnessing the Aam Aadmi Party getting its popularity among the voters compared to Bharatiya Janata Party. Locals see that the AAP party has given certainty about their candidate in Curchorem. Other national and regional parties are yet to decide about their candidates, which has put AAP as a direct competitor to BJP in Curchorem constituency for Assembly election. This time in Curchorem it looks like there will be direct competition against Aam Aadmi Party candidate Gabriel Fernandes and the BJPs Nilesh Cabral. As per the sources and discussions among the voters from…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Goa Raj Bhavan may have on October 2nd last year decided to come within the ambit of the RTI Act but has once again informed Adv. Aires Rodrigues that the information sought by him was not available with the Public Information Officer (PIO). Adv. Aires Rodrigues, on December 16th, through his second application under RTI, had sought a copy of all the official letters received by Goa Governor from the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister from November 3rd 2019 to August 18th 2020, which pertains to the period when Satya Pal Malik was the Governor…