Mining crisis: Shah to chair meeting today

The Goan NetworkPublished Jul 12, 2019, 2:57 AM IST

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PANAJI

Chief Minister will be attending a high-level meeting to be chaired by BJP chief Amit Shah on the vexatious Goa mining imbroglio in Delhi at 4 pm on Friday.

Union Minister for Mines Pralhad Joshi and Goa’s Advocate General Devidas Pangam will also attend the meeting, an official government release said.

The five-decade-old mining industry in the coastal state came to a standstill in March 2018, after the Supreme Court quashed the second renewal of 88 iron ore mining leases.

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Of the 27 in BJP, only 7 have roots to party; elders irked

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Published Jul 12, 2019, 2:57 AM IST

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the goan I networkPANAJIThe BJP may have poached its way to a two-thirds majority with a strength of 27 after the drubbing it got at the 2017 assembly elections in Goa, but many senior leaders are worried and in a spot of discomfort that only seven of their legislators are original party members. Just 13 of the party candidates at the 2017 elections emerged victorious. Of these, four - Mauvin Godinho, Pandurang Madkaikar, Pravin Zantye and Rajesh Patnekar - were…