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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The President of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Girish Chodankar has demanded to withdraw all the facilities of Milind Naik, who was compelled to resign as minister following sex scandal allegations, enjoyed by him even 25 days after his resignation. In a scathing attack on BJP, Chodankar said that BJP government always tried to shield Milind Naik after the allegations were leveled and now trying to give him governments patronage. “This is unaccepted that Minister who has resigned on charges of sex scandal has been provided with all the facilities given to cabinet ministers.” Chodankar said. It may…

Goemkarponn desk Aam Aadmi Party Vice President criticised CM Pramod Sawant for failing to prioritize the Covid warriors when providing jobs and she also threatened to go on hunger strike with 50 MTS staff members if their demands are not met within a week. In the midst of the pandemic, when nobody was willing to take a risk, 50 MTS staff from South Goa joined the South District Covid Care health center. Impressed by their efforts, the Sawant government had vowed to take action in prioritizing these MTS staff in the recruitment process. Pratima said, “Even though the government…

DHIRAJ HARMALKAR/ Goemkarponn desk MORMUGAO: The omnipresent and omnipotent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which once claimed to be in the four constituencies of Mormugao taluka, seems to have received a sucker punch from its own people recently. This time it is undeniable that BJP will have a tough time to emerge victorious as the people’s sentiments are against the BJP, and they are eyeing for an able option to bring Acche Din. Assembly elections are slated for February 14, and the political parties are busy in their door to door campaigning and running around in each constituency meeting people and…

AERIAL VIEW Be it Rohan Khuante, Jayesh Salgaocar, Ravi Naik, Pravin Zantye, they all resigned as they wanted to contest on some other party ticket and to a certain extent is justifiable as they would go to the electorate again and seek their mandate. If they feel the leader is right, they would re-elect him or dump him if they feel he was wrong. In short, they did not enjoy any office of profit after switch-over. However, the case of Michael Lobo and Luizinho Faleiro is different. Luizinho Faleiro resigned from the Congress and joined the Trinamool Congress only for…

Pratibha Borkar The BJP government has decided to give the status of a cabinet minister to senior Congress leader and former Goa chief minister Pratap Singh Rane, who will be given lifelong privileges after his political retirement. Pratap Singh Rane, 82, has completed fifty years as the MLA of Goa Legislative Assembly. On that occasion, the BJP government is honouring this senior Congress leader. Though the Goa government’s decision is a matter of constitutional controversy, the BJP government’s shrewd Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has played the trick of killing several birds with one stone. Pratapsingh Rane has been in Goa…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate today said that he will be waiting for the official party announcement of candidature before going ahead with the campaigning. Babush was supposed to begin his door to door campaigning from today but cancelled it at the last moment. “I am told by the party that I can go ahead, but I will wait for official confirmation of the BJP about the candidature. If I go to someone’s house and ask me about other candidates in the race, what will I tell them? It will be embarrassing for me,” said Monserrate. Reacting to…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Pravin Zantye today has resigned as the Member of the Legislature Assembly (MLA). Zantye is the fourth BJP MLA to resign. Zantye will be joining the MGP. Zantye submitted his resignation to Goa Assembly Legislative Secretary Namrata Ulman and BJP State President Sadanand Tanavade. “I have resigned as MLA; I have decided that I have to be a part of the party which feels and does development in the state. I will be joining the MGP,” said Zantye He further said that he does not want to join the Congress as it is not the same party…