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Topic: Goa Congress

Son vs father in Goa’s Poriem? Minister Vishwajit wants BJP ticket as ex-CM Rane gets Congress’

11-time Poriem MLA Pratapsingh Rane got Congress ticket a day after son Vishwajit told reporters the 83-year-old should 'gracefully retire' or it would 'get messy'.

Goa BJP minister Milind Naik, who quit over ‘sexploitation’ scandal, is corruption-accused too

Goa urban development and social welfare minister Milind Naik's resignation comes weeks before assembly elections in the state. He is a three-term MLA from Mormugao.

Former Goa CM Ravi Naik resigns as Congress MLA, party’s strength in House drops to 3

Naik is expected to join the BJP. In October, former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro had resigned as Congress MLA and joined TMC. Goa is going to polls early next year.

Mamata promises Goa ‘Navi Sakal’ in 2022 as Trinamool goes all-out for poll debut in state

Trinamool will contest all 40 Goa assembly seats alone in next year's election & party leaders and strategist Prashant Kishor's I-PAC are already camping in the state to prepare for it.

Ahead of Goa’s 2022 polls, alliance talks heat up, but Congress remains ‘susegad’

In 2017, Congress lost Goa govt to BJP despite emerging as the single-largest party, mainly because it had not stitched an alliance with other parties & Independents. 

The decline of Congress in Goa — from single-largest party in 2017 to divided house of 4 now

MLA & former CM Luizinho Faleiro resigned from Congress Monday. He is the 13th MLA to leave the party since 2017, when it had emerged as single-largest party in Goa's House of 40.

Congress asks BJP-led coalition to prove majority in Goa, demands special assembly session

The Congress also claimed that the party had the requisite number of MLAs to prove majority in the 40-member House

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.