Two days after the Goa government launched a crackdown on Nigerian nationals illegally living in Goa, a senior state Bharatiya Janata Party minister compared Nigerians to cancer.
Manohar Parrikar, who spearheaded Bharatiya Janata Party's emphatic win in assembly polls with majority of its own for the first time, today took oath as chief minister of Goa at the head of a 6-member coalition government.
With Sunday's result, in which the BJP managed one seat, the strength of Congress and its allies comprising the United Legislature Party rose to 21 in the 39-member House.\n\n
The election of BJP's Rajendra Arlekar, from Vasco and Dayanand Mandrekar from Siolim in the May 2002 election was set aside by a single-judge bench.
Goa's art and culture department has withdrawn its circular on dress code in office and allowed semi-formal and smart casuals for its staff in a fresh direction.
Parrikar returned to Goa as the chief minister for the fourth time, though he could not complete full terms in his earlier stints.
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