If the BJP returns to power, IIT Bombay graduate Manohar Parikkar (56), a protégé of the late Pramod Mahajan, will be the main contender for the CM’s post. It was Mahajan who brought this small-time entrepreneur to politics in the 1990s. Illegal mining and under-development are the issues that the former Goa CM has taken up this time.
Prominent Congress political families in Goa have laid claim to at least 14 assembly tickets for the March 3 polls even as the party’s rivals are hurling accusations of nepotism.
Accusing the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) of "double standards", state BJP today said that for a pre-poll alliance to happen, the MGP, which is sharing power with Congress, should first pull out of the government.
The forthcoming assembly polls in Goa have put the state’s tourism season in peril.
After days of wrangling over seats, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have firmed up a pre-poll tie-up in Goa, a move that has come as a morale booster for the scam-battered ruling alliance ahead of the March 3 elections in the state.
The Congress in Goa today compared the mega illegal mining scam to "a murder on the street", but claimed the Congress-led coalition government was not directly responsible for the menace in Goa.
Non-Goans will not be allowed to buy agricultural land in Goa, according to the draft manifesto of the Congress party, a senior party leader said Monday.
Election Commission of India's Goa office is contemplating filing a first information report (FIR) against the Goa Cricket Association president and Congress legislator Dayanand Narvekar for violation of election code of conduct.
Congress in Goa today claimed that the party can win majority in the forthcoming state legislative assembly poll on its own, even as it believes that coalition partners would come as an added force.
The Goan diaspora worldwide is spearheading a campaign to shame the state and central authorities into reining in illegal and indiscriminate mining in Goa, timing it just ahead of assembly polls.
A discordant relationship with Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is forcing the Congress to hunt for "friends, instead of votes" in next month's assembly polls in politically significant Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said on Sunday.
Battling differences within the party, the BJP today said it was yet to decide on whether to project any chief ministerial candidate before the Assembly polls.
For the first time in more than a decade, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa has stepped into poll gear without projecting its chief ministerial candidate.
The Congress has begun its hunt for a new party chief in Goa after incumbent Subhash Shirodkar requested the high command to relieve him as he is contesting the assembly elections. Aurangzeb Naqshbandi reports.
After exposing the Digambar Kamat-led government on the illegal mining front, BJP has now woven its election campaign around the issue, promising people to save legal mines and providing them amenities through revenue earned from iron ore exports.