Goa elections: This time with majority we will act immediately to form govt, says Rahul Gandhi
Elections | Feb 11, 2022, 06:32 PM ISTThe Goa assembly elections will be held in a single phase on February 14. The votes will be counted on March 10.
The Goa assembly elections will be held in a single phase on February 14. The votes will be counted on March 10.
On the BJP offering him three seats other than Panaji for next week's election, Parrikar (41), a businessman, said the fight was "never for options". After being denied ticket by the BJP, Parrikar is contesting against sitting BJP MLA Atanasio Monserrate, a local heavyweight.
Addressing an election rally in Mapusa, PM said the Congress has been treating Goa as its "enemy" and same treatment continues even now.
A week before Goa goes to polls to elect a new assembly, Modi also used his reply to the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in Rajya Sabha to attack the Congress on freedom of speech and how it had sacked Lata Mangeshkar's younger brother from All India Radio for presenting a patriotic poem of Veer Savarkar.
Goa BJP was supposed to release its manifesto for the upcoming assembly elections. Nitin Gadkari's meeting has also been cancelled, he informed.
The Union Minister helped the injured lady and sent her to the hospital with a cop in one of the cars of her convoy.
Led by leader of opposition Digambar Kamat, who is among the two MLAs of the party left in the Assembly, the candidates read out the affidavit which promises that they will not resign from the party or switch over to any other political outfit in the next five years.
The AAP national convener also slammed BJP for openly saying that they will form government at any cost and will buy MLAs.
Elections to all 40 Assembly seats in Goa are scheduled on Feb 14 and results will be declared on Mar 10.
The limit for door to door campaigns has also been enhanced, wherein instead of 10 persons, now 20 persons, excluding security personnel, will be allowed.
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A whopping 27 per cent of the participants said that they want to see Pramod Sawant as the CM after the polls.
Amit Shah was addressing an indoor public meeting, about 30 kms from state capital Panaji, to campaign for a BJP candidate ahead of the February 14 Assembly polls.
Congress has tied up with GFP, a regional outfit that was a part of the Manohar Parrikar government in 2017. The TMC has found a regional partner in the form of MGP.
Alleging that the BJP had falsely blamed Congress leaders for the illegal mining in Goa to win elections in 2012, the opposition party demanded an apology from the BJP.
Fadnavis said that BJP offered Utpal Parrikar, son of late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, two constituencies to contest election in the upcoming Goa Assembly polls. One of those is considered a safe party seat.
Goa Assembly Polls 2022: Utpal Parrikar said that he will not return to the BJP even if he wins elections from Panaji. He is contesting polls as an independent candidate from Panaji.
"I want to tell you a serious thing. A very serious issue. If the central government or the BJP speaks about a double engine government, it means they want to run a dictatorship in Goa," Yashwant Sinha said.
At the time of his resignation from BJP, Parsekar was the head of the ruling party's manifesto committee for the February 14 Assembly polls.
The Election Commission has already announced the dates and all the political parties have started flexing their muscles in the poll-bound states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab.
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