THURSDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 2026
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CM Sawant seems to be pleasing Delhi masters

The CM has not taken too kindly to his counterpart CM Arvind Kejriwal’s mocking of ‘The Kashmir Files’ in the Delhi assembly. I fail to fathom how Goa would suffer if Kejriwal doesn’t make the film tax free in Delhi. The Goa CM made the film tax free with retrospective effect and even declared reimbursement of GST incurred by cinema theatre owners. The money, of course, will be extracted from the taxpayers’ pockets. The CM even encouraged government employees to take half-day leave and go watch this propaganda movie. Has our CM been elected to waste his time on such piffling matters and get into Twitter wars? I think he can do much more than this for the betterment of Goa? A true-blue RSS guy that he is, Sawant saheb is all out to please his masters in Delhi and Nagpur. Jai Ho!


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A power-packed day and celebration akin to a fair

MELVILLE X D’SOUZA, Mumbai
Published Mar 30, 2022, 12:29 AM IST
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A power-packed day it must have definitely been. One could see the enthusiasm and the euphoria right from the time the results of the election were out. Five years after the party formed the government in 2017, they seemed to have got a majority on their own. One could see the power that was displayed at the swearing-in ceremony with high-profile personnel present at the function. However, swearing-in ceremonies in the country in recent times have become some sort of a…

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