Tag: Goa Assembly

Panaji: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to the Goa Assembly and met ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in his official chamber. “He met the Chief Minister, talked to him for five minutes enquiring about his health,” Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar said. Asked if Gandhi raised the issue of the […]

Panaji: Along with elections to Goa’s two Lok Sabha seats on April 23, the state is also going to witness by-elections to three Assembly seats, the results of which may well decide the fate of the incumbent BJP-led coalition government. The bypolls in Shiroda and Mandrem were necessitated after two Congress MLAs representing the constituencies […]

Panaji: The Goa Legislative Assembly has become the first to pass a ‘congratulatory motion’ in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has claimed. Sawant said this reflected the real gratitude of people of Goa towards the “historic decision” taken by the BJP-led central government. The state Assembly on Monday passed […]