'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
'BJP central observers have come to Goa and are scheming to merge smaller parties within their party to run the government.'
One of the ministers said they are going back to Ranchi for a Cabinet meeting scheduled on Thursday.
In a video message, Parrikar, 62, appealed people to continue praying for his health.
'Kejriwal could have easily deputed someone to step in as chief minister, but being the authoritative and self-centered personality that he is, he chose not to do it.' 'If the AAP loses Delhi, where it has a huge majority, the only one to blame would be Kejriwal,' asserts Ramesh Menon.
With Atishi at the helm it will not be easy for the BJP to continue using the LG's office and the bureaucracy as political instruments to hinder governance and thereby provoke the electorate's ire against the AAP, expects Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Two technocrats, two hard-boiled politicians are India's new Cabinet ministers...
Former Uttarakhand CM and Congress leader Harish Rawat alleged that the state government wants an immediate discussion on the UCC bill despite nobody having a draft copy of it.
"I was not happy in Congress. The Congress state leadership has failed completely," Madkaikar said.
He said his supporters were apprehensive that joining TMC would invite the "outside party" to Goa which will split votes.
In the last two-and-a half years, the Congress has lost 13 of its MLAs to the BJP which now enjoys an overwhelming majority in the assembly.
Independent MLA Govind Gawde supporting the BJP's effort to form the next Goa government confirms that defence minister told him he will be the next Goa chief minister
Former Goa's Inspector General of Prison, Elvis Gomes will be AAP's chief ministerial candidate for 2017 polls.
The Congress rebels are seeking to install a person of their choice as the new chief minister of the state.
'If the charge is not given immediately, we will contest all upcoming elections, that is (Assembly) by-election and Lok Sabha polls, by fielding our candidates against official candidate of the government'
The stakes are significant for the BJP in this round as the party had in 2019 won an overwhelming majority of these seats, including all in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, that will go to polls on May 7.
During the arguments, the Kejriwal's counsel told the court that the entire case upon the CM rests on statements.
Parrikar said he received Gandhi's visit in the spirit of India's healthy political tradition of rising above bipartisan considerations and wishing even opponents a quick recovery from any ailment.
'Peninsular Indians could ask 'Why should we contribute half of India's tax revenues if we account for only a quarter of the seats in the Lok Sabha?'.' 'The rest of the country seems likely to counter that 'democracy means one vote per person irrespective of where that person resides in India'.' 'With no easy answers to this thorny debate, the south's economic ascendancy could end up creating a Hobson's choice.' A revealing excerpt from Nandita Rajhansa and Saurabh Mukherjea's book, Behold the Leviathan: The Unusual Rise of Modern India.
Fiona Mackeown, mother of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, who was found dead on Anjuna beach six years ago, has accused the erstwhile Congress government of "hushing up" the case and demanded speedy justice for her daughter.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said the MLAs who visited Brazil to watch the recent football World Cup would pay from their pockets.
Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and three others were on Sunday inducted into the Union Cabinet as Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his Council of Ministers, bringing in 21 new ministers as Shiv Sena kept away from the exercise.
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Friday said not only his colleagues in the assembly but also Maharashtra is happy that 'Balasaheb Thackeray's Shiv Sainik has become the chief minister'.
Justifying his arrest, the ED said Kejriwal had been arrested bona fide and not for any mala fide or extraneous reasons.
The Goa police will quiz two top officials of ethnic lifestyle retailer Fabindia on Tuesday in connection with the voyeurism case filed against the outlet's staff after Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani alleged that the store had a CCTV camera focusing at the trial room.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which entered the fray with much fanfare, failed to make any impact at the hustings.
Headed by former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, the JD-S has long been a strong third player in the southern state where the Congress and the BJP have been the two main parties.
The Goa chief minister does not fit the paradigm of a standard politician yet he can be relied on to add a new dynamic to proceedings at the Centre, Aditi Phadnis reports
The Congress, which is not very keen on having an alliance with the TMC, called it 'an untrustworthy ally', which is trying to grow at its expense.
The CBI on Thursday arrested Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha in connection with a corruption case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, officials said.
"I am leaving for Delhi on a business trip. It is purely personal," Kamat said before boarding the flight.
Traffic will be restricted on the Zuari bridge, a vital link between north and south Goa, as it has developed a crack, Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane said on Tuesday.\n
A SpiceJet aircraft has been hired and the flight is expected to leave Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport for Goa's Dabolim airport at around 3 pm, sources privy to the development told PTI.
A BJP leader, on condition of anonymity, said all party MLAs have been asked not to leave the state.
The chief minister started his day with a visit to the Devki Krishna temple at Khandola village.
The talks took place in a beach resort in Benaulim on the sidelines of a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
"Special circumstances" exist in Punjab, Wasnik said and added that in view of these, the AAP and the Congress have decided to fight the Lok Sabha polls separately in the state.
In 2012, Parsekar had shown his movable and immovable assets at Rs 10.74 crore which now stand at Rs 8.98 crores.
The central probe agency re-registered the first information report (FIR) of Goa Police on a reference from the Ministry of Home Affairs which was routed to it through the Department of Personnel and Training, officials said.
Hundreds of BJP workers who had gathered outside the complex cheered when Parrikar arrived.
