The 49-year-old entrepreneur oversees the media and real estate arm of Dempo Industries as its executive director.
In the backdrop of outrage over the rape-cum-murder of a British teenaged girl in Goa, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday insisted that the state was the "safest" destination for tourists as he briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the incident. "I appeal to all tourists Goa is the safest place and Goans are nice people," he told reporters after a meeting with Dr Singh where Goa MPs Shantaram Naik and Francisco Sardinha were also present.
The numbers game seems weighed against Pratapsinh Rane.
The state cabinet took the decision after a meeting on Tuesday.
Congress candidate Francisco Sardinha on Saturday won the Mormugao Lok Sabha seat by a margin of over 40,000 votes.
Five-day festival of Carnival began on Saturday in Goa.
In keeping with the trend seen elsewhere in the country so far, an all-time-high 76.82 percent of the voters exercised the franchise in the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Goa on Saturday.
'This is the first time in Goa politics that a communal leadership is being foisted on Goa's people.'
It is a record that the saffron party has created, where the majority of its legislators belonged to the minority community.
"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.
Congress member of Parliament Francisco Sardinha on Friday moved a private member's Bill in the Lok Sabha to revoke the ban on bullfights, asserting that these festivities form part of a tradition going back centuries.
As the dust finally settles on the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections 2019 and Bharatiya Janata Party along with its NDA allies emerges as the clear winner, here is a list of who won in each of the 7 phases of elections.
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