Goa: Congress moves five MLAs to undisclosed location ahead of Assembly session as five others go incommunicado
• 3 years agoThe 'rebel' MLAs - Michael Lobo, Digambar Kamat, Kedar Naik, Rajesh Faldesai and Delialah Lobo - were available for comments, but sources in the BJP claimed that the legislators were in touch with them
Explained: The crisis in the Goa Congress that led to the sacking of Michael Lobo as Leader of Opposition
Fp Explainers • 3 years agoThe Congress is witnessing a mutiny with six of its 11 MLAs incommunicado. The party alleges that some of its senior leaders in the Goa unit are collaborating with the BJP to engineer defections
Goa Congress immediately removes Michael Lobo as Leader of Opposition amid talks of defections
Fp Staff • 3 years agoAICC Goa in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao accused former CM Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo of working in total coordination with BJP. He claimed that BJP wants to finish Opposition in the state
'Rumours', say Goa Congress leaders, deny party MLAs joining BJP ahead of Assembly session
Fp Staff • 3 years agoGoa Congress leader Michael Lobo said that the 'rumours' have been 'spread deliberately' ahead of the Assembly session
Goa Assembly elections 2022: Resort politics makes a comeback with Congress moving its flock ahead of results
• 3 years agoThe Congress has refused to admit that the party was corralling its candidates as it is not willing to take any chances given the delicate number game
Goa Assembly Elections 2022: Instability and defections mark Goa's electoral history
Fp Staff • 3 years agoOver the span of 31 years since Goa attained statehood in 1987, the state has had 18 chief ministers and three stints of President’s Rule
Tigers must be punished for eating cows like humans, says Goa MLA Churchill Alemao during Assembly debate on man-animal conflicts
• 5 years ago'What is the punishment for a tiger when he eats a cow? When a human being eats cow, he is punished,' Goa MLA Churchill Alemao said.
IFFI 2019: Congress threatens to protest if Goan films not screened in Indian Panorama section
Fp Staff • 5 years agoIFFI 2019 will be held in the state from 20 to 28 November.
IFFI 2017 wasn't funded by I&B ministry or Directorate of Film Festivals, says Pramod Sawant
• 6 years agoThe Goa government had spent Rs 17.44 crore on hosting IFFI 2017, according to Pramod Sawant.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar denies existence of drug mafia in Goa, says narcotics are smuggled for trade and consumption
• 7 years agoThere is no drug mafia in Goa, but drugs are smuggled into the state for "trade, consumption and transit", Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said