Assembly Election 2022 Highlights: BJP to enrol one lakh 'cyber yoddhas' for Uttarakhand polls
Elections | Dec 23, 2021, 12:07 AM ISTBesides Goa, four other states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur will go to polls early next year.
Besides Goa, four other states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur will go to polls early next year.
After Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco's resignation, the Congress' strength in the 40-member Goa Assembly has been reduced to two.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday at a programme here transferred Rs 1,000 crore to bank accounts of self help groups to benefit around 16 lakh women.
Two other Congress leaders had also recently resigned as MLAs in the state, where elections are due early next year.
Five poll-bound states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Elections in these states will be held in February-March next year.
Five poll-bound states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Elections in these states will be held in February-March next year.
PM Modi inaugurated multiple development projects, including the renovated Fort Aguada jail museum, super specialty block at the Goa Medical College and new South Goa district hospital.
Arvind Kejriwal claimed that people have lost faith in the Congress in Goa while the BJP is itself is breaking up.
Five poll-bound states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Elections in these states will be held in February-March next year.
In a setback for the BJP, party MLA from Cortalim, Alina Saldanha on Thursday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), party convenor Arvind Kejriwal informed on Twitter.
The Congress party on Thursday announced the first list of 8 candidates for Goa Assembly Elections 2022.
Several other Congress block members from the Cumbharjua constituency also joined TMC. Former panchayat members from across Goa have also joined the Mamata Banerjee-led party.
Mamata Banerjee said she has a plan for Goa, just the way she had for West Bengal, which will be implemented in the coastal state within six months of coming to power.
Churchill Alemao (72), who represented the state's Benaulim Assembly segment, also told reporters that he will formally join the TMC later in the day in the presence of Mamata Banerjee, who is on a two-day visit to the coastal state.
"When CDS Rawat was being cremated, a party was celebrating. They should be ashamed," Rawat said.
The TMC, however, asserted that such a cash transfer was "perfectly doable". The Mamata Banerjee-led party also targeted a senior state Congress leader in connection with an alleged scam and said "moral science comes before maths".
The AAP is determined to provide a fresh alternative to Goa with good candidates and form an honest and corruption- free government, the party's Goa desk in-charge Atishi said.
According to the party's Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra, the scheme, which has already been implemented by the party in West Bengal, would benefit nearly 3.51 lakh households in the coastal state.
Priyanka Gandhi also criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is seeking to play a major role in Goa's electoral politics, holding it responsible for the air pollution in the national capital where the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit is in power.
A group of Congress leaders from the Porvorim assembly constituency tendered their resignations on Friday morning. The group, supported by Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte, claimed that Congress was not serious about contesting the assembly polls likely to be held in early 2022.
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