In Goa, blame game begins between Congress and ally GFP over poor poll performanceThe BJP won 20 out of the total 40 seats in the Goa elections and secured the support of MGP and three Independents. The saffron party is y...
Goa CM not sure of winning his seat so Shah is campaigning for him: CongressShah is scheduled to address a public meeting at Sankhalim, from where Sawant is the BJP candidate, on Wednesday evening. Chodankar said th...
Goa polls: Hit hard by defections, Congress makes its candidates take pledge of party loyalty before GodSince the last election, the Congress has seen most of its legislators quitting the party. The grand old party, which had emerged as the si...
Goa Assembly elections to be held in single phase on February 14These are the parties in the fray: BJP. Congress-GFP alliance, Aam Aadmi Party and the Trinamool Congress- MGP alliances. There are also pa...
Congress ready to take support of any party willing to defeat BJP: P ChidambaramThe Congress is capable of defeating the BJP on its own, but "if any party wants to support the Congress to defeat the BJP, why should I sa...
Goa Assembly elections: Congress announces pre-poll alliance with Goa Forward PartyAfter the Assembly polls in 2017, the GFP, which had won three seats, had extended support for the formation of the then BJP-led state gove...
Congress, Goa Forward Party clinch pact; going up against BJP in assembly polls"Continuance of Goa under BJP rule is an impossibility!...The curse of the communal and anti-Goan Pramod Sawant govt will be blown away!," ...
Goa Forward Party withdraws from BJP-led National Democratic AllianceHowever, the move of the GFP, which has 3 MLAs in the 40-member Goa House, will not have any impact on the stability of the Pramod Sawant g...
Like-minded parties must join hands to defeat BJP in Goa: GFPThe GFP was a constituent of two BJP governments in the state before it was unceremoniously dropped in 2019.
For Pramod Sawant, today would be his first political test as the BJP takes the trust vote to prove its majority.The negotiations started on Sunday night, minutes after the death of former CM Manohar Parrikar with the action centred at Sardesai’s resid...
Nitin Gadkari holds talks with BJP, MGP leaders to select new Goa CMThe BJP-led coalition in Goa began discussions on Sunday night to find a new leader to replace Parrikar, who had died earlier in the evenin...
Goa mining crisis will be resolved much before LS polls: BJPThe apex court in its order passed in February this year, had quashed the second renewal of 88 mining leases and directed that the operatio...
Won't withdraw support till Manohar Parrikar is CM: MGP & GFP"The Maharashtrawadi Gomatak Party has pledged its support to the BJP-led alliance and we will not withdraw it till Parrikar is the chief m...
Swift BJP outmanoeuvres Congress in Goa; even pre-poll ally plays gamesAICC functionaries found themselves confronted by a lightning counter operation by the BJP. The Congress had assured GFP that the leadershi...
Goa's Congress MLAs blame their leaders for wasting a mandate in their favourThe BJP won only 13 of Goa’s 40 seats this time. But it is the BJP that will be sworn-in a few hours from now to lead Goa's new coalition g...
Manohar Parrikar appointed as new Goa Chief MinisterThe BJP decided on Sunday to let Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar return to Goa as CM if that’s the only way they could form the governmen...
BJP getting ready to stake claim to form government in GoaThe newly elected BJP MLAs, who met today to explore the possibility of forming government in Goa, earlier passed a resolution urging party...