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BJP doesn't want more MLAs, will lead to confusion, asserts Mauvin

PANAJI

More isn't always necessarily better, according to Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho.

Commenting on recent poll forecasts made by top BJP leaders about the party's chances of winning an even bigger mandate in the 2022 polls, Godinho claimed that having a team of more ruling MLAs tends to create more confusion over the issue of accommodating them in appropriate positions.

"We do not want more to create any confusion. We have don't have place(s). Where will you accommodate them? This is our situation," Godninho told reporters at the Secretariat on Thursday.

Godinho, a former Congressman, also said that the BJP would get a "good majority" but refused to spell out an exact number, arguing that he was neither a pandit, nor an astrologer.

"We will get a good majority. I cannot give a figure, I am not a pandit or an astrologer," Godinho said.

The BJP currently has 28 MLAs in the 40-member state legislative assembly, and the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant-led government also has the support of one independent MLA, namely Minister for Art and Culture Govind Gaude.


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Govt clears land policy on Tuem electronic cluster

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Aug 20, 2021, 12:45 AM IST
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PANAJIIn a bid to address the politically sensitive land allotment issue, the State government has notified a policy laying down the procedure and criteria for allotment of plots in the Tuem electronic cluster.The policy proposes to organise the nearly six lakh square meters of the cluster broadly into plots of two sizes -- one acre for promoters of larger units and smaller ones of 350-800 sq mts for promoters proposing smaller units.Land allotted will be on a long term…

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