GFP Chief Vijai Sardesai boarded on an excavator during protest by villagers at Velsao against double tracking and blocking of right of way by the railway authorities.tachment Vasco: Protests in Velsao against the rail double-tracking project witnessed high drama as Goa Forward Party (GFP) chief Vijai Sardesai and former Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Amit…
Margao: Congress workers, led by former party chief Amit Patkar, gathered outside Vidyut Bhavan, Panaji, demanding a resolution to the prolonged grievances of contractual meter readers employed under the electricity department.Many of these workers, the party pointed out, have served on temporary contracts for close to 15 years without being absorbed into permanent service. Patkar…
Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal held a meeting with senior Goa Congress functionaries in Panaji on Saturday Margao: Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Saturday held a series of one-on-one meetings with key party functionaries in Panaji, in an exercise seen as an attempt to paper over internal differences and firm up…
Panaji: Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardessai said that as a Congress ally, he hopes that Congress resolves its internal feud well before the assembly elections. He said that “better sense needs to prevail” within Congress functionaries. “They should set their house in order, otherwise nobody will take them seriously,” said Sardessai.Sardessai’s comments come in…
Margao: The bid to register a new outfit, ‘Goa Congress Party’, has exposed fresh fault lines within Goa Congress, with state president Girish Chodankar alleging a BJP-backed attempt to split the party’s vote base, while political observers attribute the development largely to internal dissent following his return to the GPCC leadership.Chodankar has alleged that BJP…
AICC secretary and Goa co-in-charge Anjali Nimbalkar was in the state on Saturday Margao: The change of guard at the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee was not a hastily taken decision but was preceded by one-on-one discussions that the Congress high command held with every key stakeholder in the state, AICC secretary and Goa co-in-charge Anjali…
The decision to bring Girish Chodankar back appears to have been as much about the absence of alternatives as about conviction in his abilities Margao: Girish Chodankar was brought back as Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president to steady the ship — and soon found himself in a storm he didn’t see coming. Hours after…
Panaji: Girish Chodankar’s return as state Congress president has upset the party’s internal equations. Since his appointment as Amit Patkar’s replacement, more than five party functionaries have stepped down, casting a cloud over Chodankar’s new stint.In a bid to stem the tide, the party announced a series of organisational changes.Himanshu Tivrekar has been appointed as…
Colva: Former Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Amit Patkar said there was neither consultation nor discussion with him regarding the change in the party’s state structure.Patkar was speaking to reporters after the unveiling of a statue of Jack de Sequeira, popularly known as the Father of the Opinion Poll, on the occasion of Goa…
Margao: Taking charge as the president of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) on Saturday, Girish Chodankar trained his guns on what he called ‘Jodi No. 1’ — chief minister Pramod Sawant and town and country planning minister Vishwajit Rane — accusing them of working to “sell Goa”, and vowing to expose their machinations ahead…
