Vasco: The hearing held on Monday at the Vasco deputy collector’s office on the land acquisition for the South Western Railway (SRW) double-tracking project faced many objections by villagers affected by the project.
The land acquisition officer and deputy collector Mormugao, Sachin Desai received a delegation of Goencho Ekvott urging the to scrap land acquisition from Kalem to Vasco town for the special project namely Hospet-Hubli-Tinaighat-Vasco-da-Gama doubling.
The Goencho Ekvott assisted all the villagers who had raised objections to the land acquisition of their ancestral properties. Senior advocate Carlos Alvares Ferreira and his team along with Goa Foundation led by Claude Alvares represented the villagers and argued their case before the competent authority that the land acquisition notification had lapsed quoting various sections of the railway and other applicable Acts.
The Goa Forward Party walked out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Tuesday, citing anti-Goan policies of the BJP-led state government. However, 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 government in the state since the Vijai Sardesai-led party is not a ruling constituent. The GFP extended support to the NDA in 2017 to facilitate the formation of the then BJP-led state government under the leadership of Manohar Parrikar. After Parrikar s death in 2019, the alliance soured when three GFP ministers were dropped from the Pramod Sawant- led government.
GFP president Vijai Sardesai said the NDA had “miserably failed” to protect Goa’s interests.
PANAJI: The Goa Forward Party (GFP) quit the National Democratic Alliance on Tuesday saying that it is time to shake off the divisiveness and despair that the BJP-led government has created in Goa.
In a letter to NDA national chairperson Amit Shah, the GFP president Vijai Sardesai said the NDA had “miserably failed” to protect Goa’s interests.
The decision to quit the NDA was taken by the party’s state executive committee which met at the party headquarters on Gudi Padva, which is celebrated as the new year by Hindus.
The Aam Aadmi Party will not ally with any other outfit for the 2022 Goa Assembly polls and will contest all 40 seats on its own strength, the party s senior leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday. He said his party was the alternative to the BJP in Goa at a time when the opposition in the state was weak and was doing what the BJP wants them to do . During the day, he paid tribute to former chief ministers Dayanand Bandodkar and Manohar Parrikar, and asked all those who want to see corruption-free politics to join AAP.