Goa Elections: Congress promises law protecting land rights of locals ahead of polls
Elections | Dec 05, 2021, 01:38 PM ISTChidamdaram is the Congress' senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls due early next year.
Chidamdaram is the Congress' senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls due early next year.
Ahead of addressing the reports, Banerjee met Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai and discussed the matter to "walk together" to fight against the BJP.
Talking about the assurances made by Congress, Rahul said, "My credibility is important to me. Unlike many other leaders, when I say something here, I will make sure it happens."
During her maiden interaction with TMC leaders in Goa, Mamata Banerjee accused BJP of defacing her posters in the state and said people of India will deface the saffron party.
Gandhi gave this direction during a meeting of party leaders, which he chaired in New Delhi on Friday, Congress's Goa desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao said in a statement.
Congress on Wednesday slammed BJP-led coalition govt for the confusion ahead of state's most important Hindu festival, especially at a time when Covid cases have witnessed an increase in neighbouring state of Maharashtra.
CM Pramod Sawant said that the state cabinet had cleared the files for outfitting two Toyota Fortuner cars with bullet proof gear.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, he said a pediatric intensive care unit and a neonatal intensive care unit have already been established with trained staff, while the task force headed by him was ready to purchase equipment as and when required.
"We have started screening people coming in from Maharashtra, especially from Sindhudurg. We have started isolating those who have suspected symptoms. We are also setting up labs (on the border)," Sawant told reporters.
"Shops, including in panchayat and municipal markets, may open between 7 am to 3 pm. Marriage function with upto 50 persons have been permitted," he said on Twitter late in the evening.
The state government has held two "Tika Utsavs" in the past involving all panchayats and municipal councils.
CM Pramod Sawant, who chaired the task force meeting here, said experts from state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital would begin training 120 paediatricians and a large number of nurses from Monday.
Thirteen Covid patients died at Goa's apex government hospital, the Goa Medical College, in the early hours of Friday owing to oxygen mismanagement.
In the wake of a surge in COVID cases in Goa, the bed capacity in state-run and private medical facilities is getting exhausted.
Goa will be procuring five lakh doses of Covishield vaccine initially.
The main market in Panaji, operated by the municipal corporation, will be shut down for four days after a person operating a bar in the premises tested positive for COVID-19 but couldnt be traced, Mayor Uday Madkaikar said on Thursday.
Three teenage boys were killed after their car skidded off the road and fell into a ravine in South Goa district on Sunday evening
The fire brigade got a call at 4.30 am about the blaze at the waste treatment plant located near a bus stand on the outskirts of Panaji city. "The earthmoving machinery and some other machines used to treat garbage at the plant were gutted in the blaze," the official said.
"70 lakh women have screened for breast cancer through Ayushman Bharat scheme," Irani said, adding that 30 lakh women across India have been screened for cervical cancer under the national universal health care scheme.
"As he had shown his designation as Minister of Cooperation from the Uttar Pradesh government, he was also provided with a personal security officer from the Goa Police," the official said. After his behaviour was found to be suspicious, Goa CM brought it to the notice of the Goa Police.
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