Panaji: Still smarting under its recent debacle in Goa polls, Opposition Congress has failed to elect its leader for the Assembly leaving the decision to party president Sonia Gandhi.
Senior party leaders Mukul Vasnik and Jagmit Singh Brar held discussions with individual legislators after the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) failed to arrive at a consensus over the leader at its meeting held on Saturday evening.
Three CLP members Atanasio Monserratte, Jeniffer Monserrate and Pandurang Madkaikar, did not attend the meeting.
Vasnik said party president Sonia Gandhi would take a call on the issue and will get back to the state leadership. "CLP has adopted a single line resolution authorising the party president to take decision on the matter," he said....
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02:38 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Panaji: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee chief Subhash Shirodkar on Thursday announced his decision to step down owning responsibility for the party's worst-ever performance in the state Assembly polls. Shirodkar, currently in Delhi with former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, said he would quit on Friday. "I have decided to resign owning the responsibility," he said, adding that he would submit the resignation to Congress high command. It is expected that he...
04:34 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Panaji: If Mayawati stormed to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2007 riding on the electoral shoulders of Brahmins and Dalits, Manohar Parrikar has similarly rewritten the 'social engineering' primer for Goa. For the last four years now, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been desperately reaching out to the sizeable 23 percent-strong Christian community here, which has played a potential but hesitant suitor, thanks to the party's 'infamy' inherited from...
01:43 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Panaji: The Manohar Parrikar-led Goa government will table its first budget on March 21, and is expected to implement several of the election promises through it. Parrikar, who took the oath as Chief Minister on Friday, chaired the first cabinet meeting with all the five ministers present. It was decided that budget would be presented on March 21. "The presentation will be of the full budget, but we are going...
03:43 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Panaji: Addressing his first public meeting after taking oath of the office, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday said that zero tolerance towards corruption would be the main agenda of BJP-led government. "Whatever promises that were made in the election manifesto would be fulfilled. I don't have a magic wand. I may take a little time," Parrikar told a gathering of around 5,000 people at the swearing-in function. "Zero...
01:50 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Panaji: Manohar Parrikar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Goa on Friday. This is Parrikar's third stint as the chief minister of the state. Top BJP leaders were present at the ceremony. Technocrat-turned-politician, Parrikar, is known for his clean image, blunt talk and development initiatives. Parrikar, 56, who had launched a campaign against the Congress-led government on the issue of illegal mining...
05:16 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: Manohar Parrikar of the BJP will be sworn-in as the new CM of Goa on Friday evening. This will be the Parrikar's third stint as the chief minister of the state. A full 12-member Cabinet will also be sworn in. Top BJP leaders are expected to attend the ceremony. Technocrat-turned-politician, Parrikar, is known for his clean image, blunt talk and development initiatives. Parrikar, 56, who had launched a...
08:26 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Panaji: There is more trouble for the Congress in Goa. Outgoing Goa minister Churchill Alemao has reportedly blamed chief minister Digamber Kamat for his defeat. He said Kamat worked against him. Alemao, who contested from Navelim, and three of his family members had lost the elections. Meanwhile, Digambar Kamat said the Congress lost because they did not project him as the Chief Ministerial candidate. ...
09:40 PM, Mar 08, 2012
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11:00 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Will the policy paralysis get worse? Or is there a possibility that Dr Manmohan Singh could take radical initiatives? ...
09:26 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Panaji: The BJP-MGP combine on Wednesday staked claim to form the government in Goa claiming support of 26 legislators as senior BJP leader Manohar Parrikar is all set to become the chief minister of the coastal state for the third time. Parrikar, who was unanimously elected as the leader of the state BJP legislature party, submitted a letter of support signed by the newly-elected MLAs to Governor K Sankarnarayanan. The...
07:51 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Assembly elections in Goa and with that, the hardest fall came for the Alemao family. All four members of the family lost their seats including Goa ministers Churchill and Joaquim. In fact, seven of 12 'family' candidates fielded by the Congress were trounced as Goa rejected family raj. Goa PWD minister Churchill Alemao, his brother and urban development minister Joaquim Alemao, Churchill's...
06:58 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: All but three members of the new Goa assembly are millionaires. 37 out of 40 successful candidates in the coastal state have declared their assets worth more than Rs one crore, compared to 22 who were elected to the state Assembly in 2007. According to the affidavits the candidates have submitted to the Election Commission before elections, Pratapsingh Raoji Rane of Congress who won from the Poriem constituency...
05:55 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Panaji: Outgoing Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has said the ruling Congress would have done better in the Assembly polls if he had been projected as the party's face for the top post. The picture in Goa, where BJP is set to form the new Government, would have been different if the March 3 elections had been fought completely under his leadership, he told reporters at Margao last evening. "Elections...
11:16 AM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Congress will hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the poll debacle in the four state. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are expected to attend the meeting at around 11 am. Performance of Congress, which had banked on the charisma and aggressive campaigning by Rahul Gandhi, was dismal in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The outcome of the Assembly polls in five states could be a...
09:34 AM, Mar 07, 2012
The BJP managed to wrest Goa from the Congress with a decisive mandate. ...
09:12 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Panaji: The BJP managed to wrest Goa from the Congress with a decisive mandate. The party won a majority 21 of the 40 assembly seats as four in every five voters rejected the Congress. The party was decimated to the single digit of nine seats. Manohar Parrikar, the face of the BJP's campaign in Goa and the man set to become the Chief Minister believes it was a referendum on...
07:44 AM, Mar 07, 2012
The SP gained absolute majority while the Congress finished fourth in UP polls. Rahul Gandhi, who was the face of the party in the poll campaign in UP, has acknowledged the defeat. ...
10:43 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Panaji: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called up BJP leader Manohar Parrikar and congratulated him on the success in the Goa polls. "Prime Minister called me on my number and he congratulated me," Parrikar told reporters this evening. BJP has won 21 seats in the 40-member Goa assembly today, emerging as a single largest party. Alliance partner MGP has won 3 seats. Parrikar said that the party will stake...
10:04 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Panaji: The BJP-MGP combine will on Wednesday stake claim to form government in Goa, along with two Independent legislators. BJP leader Manohar Parrikar, who led the party's campaign in the state, said senior leaders Venkaiah Naidu and Ravi Shankar Prasad will arrive in Goa on Wednesday to take stock of the situation. The party's legislature wing will be meeting in the afternoon to decide the leader of the group, he...
09:46 PM, Mar 06, 2012
