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Panaji: In a major boost to the Goa Forward Party (GFP), the former-chairperson and present councillor of Ponda Municipal Council Venkatesh Naik on Wednesday resigned from party membership of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and also as a Ponda BJP Mandal Committee member. Soon after, the councillor joined the Goa Forward Party in the presence of working president Kiran Kandolkar and vice-president Durgadas Kamat. “I am not happy with the current functioning of the party at local level,” said Naik in his resignation letter addressed to BJP State President.

Aam Aadmi Party while condemning the callous attitude of Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant asked him to immediately release the payment due to handicapped persons registered with the government under the Dayanand Social Security Scheme. AAP convenor Rahul Mhambre pointed out that the 12,000 persons with disability registered under the Dayanand Social Security Scheme with the government have not been paid the dole they were due to for the last four months and said this is not only disgraceful but also cruel to the affected persons. He pointed out that dole under DSSS is given to the poorest of…

Aam Aadmi Party has strongly condemned Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant’s approach of cherry picking people for harassment and while likening him to the Salazar of yore of the Portuguese era demanded that he open up a forum where people could willingly register themselves as participants in whatever perceived crime the government is contemplating. AAP leader sandesh Telekar said the act of the Railway Police Force in filing a First Information Report only against protesters including him even though there were hundreds of other people present at Arossim on the fateful day is akin to Salazar’s policy of nitpicking people…

Panaji: Teh Goa State Co-operative Bank has brought the door-step banking to the village of Revona in Sanguem taluka, which will benefit the beneficiaries of Griha Aadhar, DSSS etc. A pPIB press release says that Usha Ramesh, GM, OIC accompanied by Vasant Savardekar, DGM and Ajay D. Nayak, Manager visited Rivona village, Sanguem block, South Goa on 18 December 2020. The visit was facilitated by Ulhas B. PhalDessai, Chairman, GSCB and his team of officials. The mobile ATM van besides furthering financial inclusion through financial literacy messages, it provides a banking counter, withdrawal facility through ATM and other basic banking…

PANJIM: The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) has begun preliminary inquiry in alleged Labour gate scam. With this the Labour Department has send the files to the ACB for investigation. “Preliminary investigations into the #LabourGate is a complete violation of justice system. Day-by-day CM Sawant is destroying democracy & it’s institutions.We demand that case should be investigated by CBI as recommended by Lokayukta to #SaveGoaNow,” said Durgadas Kamat GFP exposed the alleged multi-crore “Labour-Gate” scam, charging that BJP workers are the beneficiaries of the financial support announced for construction workers to tide over the loss of wages caused due to COVID…

PANJIM: The High Court Of Bombay at Goa today has directed the state governemnt to declare reservation for Municipal Polls three weeks before the notification. The HC said that by taking into consideration the orders made in similar petitions, we had adjourned these matters from time to time in order to enable the learned Advocate General to make a statement as to the time limit between the issuance of the notifications for delimitation/ reservation and the notification of the schedule of the municipal elections. “By accepting the statement made by the learned Advocate General and directing the concerned authorities to…

PANJIM:South Goa Congress M.P Francis Sardinha today said that Chief Minister DR Pramod Sawant should speak to Karnataka CM and should allow the transportaion of bulls and buffalos for slaughter in Goa. Addressing the media, Sardinha said ,”Chief Minister DR Pramod Sawant should speak to Karnataka CM and should allow the transportaion of bulls and buffalos for slaughter in Goa,” He said, “Consumption of beef is very comman among Muslims and Catholics in Goa, CM should take this issue seriously,” Beef is not just cow meat alone. The meat of female buffaloes, male buffaloes and bulls is also called beef.…