Sopte favours electric vehicles in State

THE GOAN NETWORKPublished Feb 18, 2021, 12:32 AM IST

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Sopte favours electric vehicles in State

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Concerned about excessive pollution by vehicles running on traditional fuels, GTDC Chairman and Mandrem MLA Dayanand Sopte has appealed to people to start using electric vehicles in the State. He was speaking after inaugurating the Vedant showroom, an electric two-wheeler shop at Malpe-Pernem which has been set up by businessman, Sushant Singh.

"Electric vehicles are the need of the hour. The government is planning to offer a subsidy on such vehicles with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral promoting this plan,” said Sopte.

Others present on the occasion included Virnoda Sarpanch Mangaldas Kinlekar, panch Shailu Parab, businessman Dadi Parab, former sarpanch Bharat Gaude, former deputy sarpanch Gajanan Sawal Desai and others.

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Congress party ceases to exist in Goa, defector MLAs tell SC

Assert Girish has no right to file petition in court

THE GOAN NETWORK

Published Feb 18, 2021, 12:32 AM IST

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PANAJIThe Congress party has ceased to exist in Goa and Girish Chodankar who is claiming to be the president of the party has no right to file a petition before the Supreme Court, two defector MLAs Wilfred D’Sa and Clafacio Dias have told the Supreme Court.Filing their responses via affidavit before the Supreme Court to the petition filed by Girish as the president of the Congress, the duo also claimed that the five remaining Congress MLAs were independent and couldn’t be…