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RAMAKANT KHALAP
Goa Lok Sabha election: Battle lines drawn; numbers stacked in favour of BJPOn the face of it, BJP seems to be comfortably placed in South Goa seat. After engineering the defection of eight of the 11 Congress MLAs s...
Goa 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Date, schedule, candidates and other key infoA total of 16 candidates, eight each in North and South Goa Lok Sabha constituencies, are in the fray.
LS polls: Cong releases manifesto for Goa, promises environment protection, resumption of miningCongress promises to protect Goa's environment, resume mining, and address corruption in Lok Sabha elections. BJP faces criticism for gover...
Lok Sabha election 2024: Congress announces candidates for MP & Goa, sitting MP Francisco Sardinha dropped from the listThe Congress party announced six candidates for parliamentary constituencies in Goa, Madhya Pradesh, and Dadar & Nagar Haveli. Francisco Sa...
Congress announces candidates for North, South Goa LS seatsCongress announces candidates for Goa Lok Sabha seats: Ramakant Khalap and Viriato Fernandes. Khalap, former MGP MP, drafted legal amendmen...
Goa Congress leaders called to Delhi to discuss names for state's two Lok Sabha seatsLeader of Opposition Yuri Alemao, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Amit Patkar and South Goa election coordinator Altone D'Costa ha...
Former law ministers support women's reservation bill, question 'delay' of nine yearsFormer Union law ministers have shown support for the women's reservation bill introduced in the Lok Sabha, but criticized the delay of nin...
Arjun Ram Meghwal assumes charge as Law Minister; asserts no confrontation with judiciaryA three-term Lok Sabha member from Bikaner, Meghwal is only the third person to hold the Law and Justice portfolio as a Minister of State w...
Kiren Rijiju's stint in Law Ministry witnessed frequent run-ins with judiciaryKiren Rijiju, a three-term LS member from Arunachal, was removed from his post as Law Minister in the BJP government on July 26, 2021, amid...
Congress releases manifesto for Goa polls; assures resumption of mining if voted to powerChidambaram, who is the Congress' senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls, said the problem for the state is not about finding ...
Congress appoints Alexio Sequeira as Goa unit working president, Girish Chodankar to remain state chiefGoa goes to polls early next year to elect its 40-member assembly and the Congress seeks to wrest control of the state from the BJP.
Manohar Parrikar favoured cheaper Sukhoi SU-30MK1, why did Narendra Modi buy Rafale, asks Goa CongressKhalap also said that the mystery of Rafale deal was embedded in a geographic triangle of Paris, Delhi and Goa, and said the ailing CM shou...
View: Discretionary authority of governors is too wide, rules must be codified for themIf rules are in place on steps to be taken in a certain order, making clear which party/ group (pre- or post-poll) should be called first, ...
'Undercurrent' in Goa in its favour, claims AAPThe AAP candidate also claimed that "factionalism" in BJP will work against the ruling party.
AAP fails to curb dissent, says it’s normal during pollsNearly 70 members had quit the party, accusing the Delhi leaders Sanjay Singh and Durgesh Pathak of taking money for allotting seats.
Goa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lucky charmModi had survived as Gujarat CM at national executive of BJP held in Goa after 2002 Gujarat riots with backing of L K Advani & late Pramod ...
Meet Laxmikant Parsekar: A 'rebel' who made it big in Goa with BJPParsekar's unflinching loyalty to BJP and strong RSS links saw him quell a challenge from Deputy CM Francis D'Souza and leapfrog to the CM'...
Goa elections results: Catholics sponsor BJP carnival, Manohar Parrikar likely to become CMThe Catholic voter deserted Congress as Goa gave a clear mandate to the BJP-MGP coalition, voting out the Congress.
- Many a veteran bites dust
The nascent Save Goa Front (SGA), set up by former chief minister Churchill Alemao, and the United Goans Democratic Front of former ministe...