Michael Lobo

Goa: Congress moves five MLAs to undisclosed location ahead of Assembly session as five others go incommunicado

The '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

The 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

AICC 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

Goa Polls 2022: Michael Lobo flexes muscles at beach as Congress candidates take oath to not switch sides

Goa elections 2022: In 2017, Congress had emerged as the single largest party in Goa and Manipur as the two states yielded a fractured verdict. However, it failed to form the government.

Michael Lobo resigns as Goa minister, quits BJP ahead of Assembly polls

Michael Lobo claimed that people were unhappy with the ruling BJP in Goa

Karan Johar's Dharma Productions asked to apologise by Goa govt for allegedly littering beach during shoot

Dharma Productions allegedly disposed off PPEs and other unsegregated garbage on a Goa beach during a shoot last week.

No oil spillage from 3000-tonne unmanned tanker off Goan coast carrying naphtha, says state govt; expert team constituted ‘to plan remedial action’

The Goa government on Saturday said they have sought the help of experts from Pune and Mumbai to control any possible tragedy emerging due to a tanker carrying naphtha getting grounded off the Goa coast.

Four new ministers inducted into Goa cabinet, including ex-deputy Speaker Michael Lobo and three Congress defectors

On Friday, the Goa chief minister had asked three legislators from the coalition partner, Goa Forward Party, and an independent legislator, Rohan Khaunte, to step down. Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai, Vinod Palienkar and Jayesh Salgaocar are the ministers from the Goa Forward Party(GFP), who were asked to resign.

Ahead of Goa cabinet reshuffle, CM Pramod Sawant drops four ministers; ex-deputy Speaker Michael Lobo likely to be inducted

According to the notification, the four Goa ministers who were dropped from the state cabinet are – Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai, Water Resources Minister Vinod Palyekar, Rural Development Minister Jayesh Salgaonkar (all GFP MLAs) and Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte (Independent).

Daily Bulletin: SC orders status quo over Karnataka MLAs case; Goa cabinet reshuffle likely today; day's top stories

The top court said an incidental question that would arise in the Karnataka rebel MLAs resignations is the kind and extent of the directions that should be issued by a constitutional court to another constitutional functionary, which in the present case happens to be the Speaker of the Assembly.