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GFP gearing up to corner BJP on Mhadei amid K’taka polls

With Karnataka elections scheduled early next year, the Goa Forward Party seemed to gear up to corner the saffron brigade over the Mhadei issue. Party supremo Vijaibab Sardesai is aware that neither the Goa unit of BJP nor the Congress dares take on Karnataka fearing backlash in the polls. No one knows better than Vijaibab that the Goa BJP unit will do nothing that would jeopardize the party’s electoral prospects in Karnataka. People of Goa have not forgotten how former CM late Manoharbhai Parrikar had written a letter to the Karnataka BJP chief Yediyurappa on Mhadei. Any questions?

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What stops govt from launching a permanent seafarers pension?

Guilherme Almeida
Published Nov 26, 2022, 12:23 AM IST
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What stops the BJP government from coming out with a permanent pension scheme for seafarers? This question is doing the rounds in the Saxtti countryside with the government extending the pension scheme for six more months. It is a sheer coincidence that the scheme was formulated by the late Manoharbhai Parrikar when he returned to power in 2012 after Saxtti rejected the Congress. And, it is a coincidence that the scheme was stopped in 2019 when Saxtti rallied behind Congress…

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