14/02/2014 … : Just arresting the former bureaucrats  is not enough , the Goa police should arrest the builder and the contractor who are the main conspirators in the Ruby Residency case , stated MLA of St. Andre Vishnu Surya Wagh

He stated that the government was just dillydallying on the case and  arresting  the  bureaucrats  namely chief officer Deepak Desai and Paradeep Naik  will not help to resolve the issue in turn it would create a havoc amongst the bureaucracy as bureaucrats would now shy away from taking any decisions .

13/02/2014 …. Stating that the bjp state led government has once again surpassed the goans taking a u turn over the medium of instruction issue st andre mla Vishnu surya wagh on Thursday asked the north goa mp Shripad naik to declare his stand over the moi issue or else he would decide of whether to contest the north goa mp elections or not in the upcoming lok Sabha elections

Speaking to goanreporter  st andre mla Vishnu surya wagh said that the state government had completely taken a u turn on the moi issue contrary to the parties program and policies and therefore would like to know as what stand did the north goa mp Shripad naik had on the moi issue and weather he was ready to challenge the state decision taken by the state bjp led government on moi issue

Commenting over the reports of his name being figured in to the congress list of candidates for the upcoming lok Sabha elections wagh said he was surprised to know that his name was figuring in to the list of congress candidates for the upcoming lok Sabha elections in north goa though he had personally not applied his mind yet for any ticket of any political party

Wagh also stated that there were some of his good friends as well as well wishers who had informed him to contest the upcoming lok Sabha elections …

09/02/2014 … Stating that he had undertaken various developmental works in the jurisdiction of the corporation city of Panjim Ccp mayor surendra furtado is trying to seek another term as the ccp mayor for himself when the elections for the mayor and deputy mayor post would be held for the corporation city of Panjim next month …

It may be noted that last year in april ccp corporator Surendra Furtado and corporator Bento Lorena of the st cruz mla Atanasio Monserrate’s panel had won the mayor and deputy mayor of the Corporation of City of Panaji respectively.

The councillor from Miramar Mr Furtado along with his wife who is also the ccp councilor had headed the 14-member group, affiliated to the MLA of Santa Cruz constituency and had won the post of ccp mayor… 

 Speaking to goanreporter ccp mayor surendra furtado said though he was interested in another term as a ccp mayor everything was in the hands of st cruz mla babush monsoratte and his group of fourteen councilors

furtado said that since he was the senior most corporator in ccp he knew the working system of ccp in a whole which did help him in the past few months after taking over as a ccp mayor

08/02/2014 … The state congress party would soon write to the central technical authorities asking for investigating in to the tenders works undertaken by the state bjp led government through goa infrastructure development corporation said gpcc president john Fernandes

Addressing media persons at the party head office in Panjim gpcc president john Fernandes said that using urgency clause the state government had sanctioned some of the development projects at an exhorbitant rates like the one of the stay bridge at calvim

 Accusing the state government Fernandes said the present government had also sped an excessive amount on the opening and closing of the recent concluded lusofonia games 2014 on which his party had received complaints from various people

 Fernandes also spoke over the issue of the canacona building collaps

26/05/2014 … A delegation of the members from the civil society led by fatorda independent mla vijai sardessai on Monday met the state director general of police t n mohan and appraised him over the police officials harassment towards the Young shipping professional Devu Chodankar who is facing arrest for his comments on Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on a Facebook forum

It may be noted in a post in March this year, Chodankar had in his facebook comment had stated that if Modi comes to power, he would unleash a ‘holocaust’, a post that the police claimed was later deleted.

Chodankar had posted the comment on March 23 and was summoned by Goa police on May 12. He has been booked under the contentious section 66A of the IT Act along with sections of 153(A) and 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code.

The FIR was registered by former chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries Atul Pai Kane.

But on last Saturday Goa Police’s attempt to arrest deu for making anti-Narendra Modi comment was opposed by members of the Civil society activists who believed police interest in a Facebook post was draconian after which even a protest was held outside the police headquarters in Panaji on Saturday.

Speaking to media reporters after meeting dig t n mohan fatorda independent mla vijai sardessai said the state police department were trying to selectively target mr chodankar since his comment was against prime minister narendra modi

Sardessai raised apprehensions on the comments made by sanquelim mla dr pramod sawant where in mr sawant had said that certain people who were taking side mf mr chodanakar might have written his face book comments

Meanwhile social activist advocate aires rodrigues said that he had also pointed out to dgp about the previous complaints which he had filed on the politicians and no action was taken till date no those by the state police department

11/02/2014 … With few days left for the announcement to be made of the two probable’s for the upcoming lok Sabha elections the state congress party wasting no time seems to have zeroed in on the name of the present bjp mla from st andre constituency Vishnu surya wagh for its north goa parliament seat while state congress youth president velanka alemao also figures in the list of four probable’s for south goa seat

Though the state congress party had forwarded four names to the central committee of the state congress party which includes, girish chodankar, ramakhant khalap, jitendra deshprabhu and Vishnu surya wagh, mr wagh is been considered to be the front runner above the three and the aicc central committee could announce his name anytime once the end of the concluding parliament session and code of conduct is in force

The idea of naming mr wagh as one of the probable candidate for the north goa member of parliament seat for the congress party has been mooted by some of the top senior congress leaders with an idea of mr wagh being from the bahujan community who could give a strong fight to the bjp candidate Shripad naik who is also from the same bahujan community 

What is more surprising is that the nationalist congress party had already shown interest in giving its north goa parliamentary seat to the st andre bjp mla vishun surya wagh though it was not confirmed but seeing the caste factor the congress leaders seems to have believed that mr wagh was the right candidate in north goa if the bjp candidate had to be defeated in the upcoming parliamentary elections

For the south goa parliamentary seat the state congress party seems to have sent four names to the aicc central committee which include present south goa mp Francisco sardinha along with the name of former chief minister luizinho faleiro and the of the two alemao’s Churchill and velanka …

Though Churchill name figures in the list sources said that if there is a by-election held for the benaulim assembly seat then Churchill would give way to his daughter as one of the probable for the south goa parliamentary seat along with luizinho and sardinha ….

When goanreporter asked the state congress president john Fernandes as weather mr wagh name was listed in the four probable’s that were sent to the aicc central committee mr Fernandes said “ party would finalize its candidate name once the election code of conduct comes in to force but we know who are our likely candidates for the two seats in goa and naturally we have whispered in to their ears about it and campaign for the same has already started as we certainly know who are our candidates”

On asked if like other congress leaders he was also interested to go alone without the support of his coalition partners for the upcoming parliamentary elections Mr Fernandes said “ here in goa the sentiments of congressmen are to go alone as congress has a mass base committee and cader’s in the state in place and therefore everyone in the congress feels that if ticket is given to congress then we can produce results and win both the seats in the state”

“I also feel that with the candidate we have in mind it would be a cake walk for the congress party to win the parliamentary seat in north goa specially and since south goa is our seat we have no problem to regain that seat once again with same candidate or the other candidate whichever is decided by the high command mr Fernandes said ”