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Monica quits Cong, joins GFP; tells Cardozo to ‘move forward’

All India Congress Mahila (AICM) vice-president Monica Dias has quit the Congress to embrace the Goa Forward party on Monday.


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Goa Mahila Congress leaders, however, said that the organisation had urged Congress President Sonia Gandhi and other leaders to remove Monica Dias from the party for activities against the party.
Monica joined the Goa Forward Party on Monday evening at the impressive “Goal17” rally organised by the party at the multipurpose ground, Borda on Monday evening.
In her address, Monica made an appeal to senior Congress leader and former minister, Luis Alex Cardozo to join the Goa Forward Party in the interest of Goa. “Don’t try to work from behind. I have left the Congress to join Goa Forward. You should also join the party. Let us all unitedly work for Goa Forward together,” Monica said, while making an appeal to Luis Alex Cardozo to join the party.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesman Avinash Tavares said that Monica Dias had been working against the Congress party for many months particularly in Fatorda because of which the Block has written to AICC asking them to remove her from the position. “Her resignation is rhetoric just like the case of Durgadas Kamat where Fatorda block had written to Rahul Gandhi and Digvijaiya Singh for his removal. He was forced to resign failing which he would have been suspended,” he said.
 Avinash said that Goa Forward Party has taken in all of Vijai’s supporters who held posts but never contributed towards the Congress party 
or the people they claim 
to represent. 
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No takers for Rs 2,000 currency notes in Goa!

It's not only the demonitised currencies that are being deposited in banks. Also in the queue are customers with the much publicised new Rs 2000 currency note, excitedly grabbed soon after its launch.

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Published Nov 15, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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No takers for Rs 2,000 currency notes in Goa!

 Blame it on the acute shortage of Rs 100 and other smaller denomination notes, the currency seems to have no takers in Goa with shopkeepers and stores refusing to accept it demanding exact amount from customers.Banks in Goa witnessed customers coming back with the new notes to be deposited, while also asking for currency notes of lesser denominations due to shortage of ‘change’. However, new notes of Rs 500 are yet to reach the banks in Goa.A visit to the banks in…

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