The Congress accused Trinamool Congress (TMC) of helping the ruling BJP by dividing secular votes in Goa where Assembly elections will be held in the next few months.
The Congress has appointed party veteran P Chidambaram as its senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls due next year. AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal issued an order to this effect on Sunday. Chidambaram will oversee election strategies and coordination for the upcoming Assembly election in the state, Venugopal said in the order. Elections to the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly are due in February next year. In the 2017 Goa polls, the Congress emerged as the single largest party, but could not come to power as the BJP forged an alliance with some regional parties and Independents to form government in the coastal state.
The Goa government is considering allowing restaurants to function at 50 per cent capacity soon, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed the BJP's victory in municipal elections in Goa and said that the results show people's appreciation towards the party's development agenda
Voting was underway on Saturday in the elections to Goa's six municipal councils and the prestigious Corporation of the City of Panaji
A total of 7,91,814 voters are eligible to cast their vote during the election that will decide the fate of 200 candidates in 48 out of the total 50 ZP constituencies in the state
AAP has already announced 15 candidates out of 40 constituencies in three different phases