29/03/2014 …. The state congress party on Saturday accused the osd of power minister Lyndon monteiro of violation election code of conduct after mr monteiro had addressed a press conference of the goa vikas party in the capital city of Panjim on Friday …

Addressing media persons spokesperson of the state congress party durgadas kamat said that mr monteiro was drawing the salary from the state government and therefore could not be a part of the elections process of a political party

Mr kamat also south to know as why the cases related to south goa bjp candidate were withdrawn from the utta cases while cases in the same issue attached to prakash velip were still on

28/03/2014 … In a new twist the goa vikas party on Friday decided to support the two candidates of the bharatiya janata party at the up coming lok abha elections in goa …

Addressing media person president of the goa vikas party and nuvem mla micky Pacheco said that since gvp was a part of the bj led coalition government in the state gvp central committee had decided to support the bjp candidates at the upcoming lok Sabha elections

Ruling out the issue of communalism connected with the bjp party vice president of gvp lyndon monteiro said that the the bjp led government had help his party mla’s to get done lot of developmental works in their constituencies

27/03/2014 ….. All the eight nominations forms filled up by respective candidates for the upcoming north goa lok Sabha seat were accepted by the Returning Officer and north goa Collector D.P. Dwivedi during the process of forms scrutiny on Thursday  

in the North Goa constituency with the deadline for filing of nominations for the April 12 Lok Sabha elections ending on Wednesday, sitting BJP MP Shripad Naik and his Congress challenger Ravi Naik are among eight candidates who have filed their nomination papers for North Goa Parliamentary constituency.

The final list of nominations as on Wednesday is as follows: Shripad Naik (BJP main candidate), Ravi Naik (Congress main candidate), Dayanand Narvekar (independent), Dattaram Desai (Aam Aadmi party), Suhas Naik (Communist party of India), Raju D’Souza (Samajwadi Janata party – Rastriya), Ranjitsingrao Rane (independent) and Mittu Mujawar (independent).

the last date for withdrawal of nominations is March 29 while the elections in Goa are scheduled for April 12 and the counting of votes in Goa will be done on May 16.

Meanwhile even though the office of the north goa collectorate has been busy in the process of lok Sabha elections its staff and employees have been facing a tough time due to the non availability of daily water in the collectorate building

Water shortage has been noticed for the past two days in and around the collectorate building which was not brought to the notice of the north goa collector D.P. Dwivedi

Presently the office building staff has been using the remaining water from the water storage tank for its daily use

26/03/2014 … Member of the aam admi party dr dattaram dessai on Wednesday filed his nomination form for the april 12 north goa lok Sabha seat …

Dr dessai was accompanied by social activist and app member dr Oscar rebello along with a number of app activists who were seen gathered outside the north goa collectorate building in Panjim

Speaking to media reporters app north goa candidate dr dattaram dessai said that he was confident that it would be the victory of his aam admi party in both the parliamentary seats for the up coming lok Sabha elections

Meanwhile app member dr Oscar rebello said that his party was targeting five lakhs votes in the north and five lakhs votes in the south

25/03/2014 : …. Congress party would win both the state lok Sabha seats at the upcoming lok Sabha elections said goa desk incharge of the state congress party mr a chellakumar …

Speaking to goanreporter goa desk incharge of the state congress party mr a chellakumar said that the mixture of experience and youth face would help the congress party to win both the goa parliamentary seats

Commenting over the decision of the former pwd minister churchill alemao to quit the congress party Mr chellakumar said that mr alemao should have not taken such a decision in a haste manner and should have shown then maturity by their acts

24/03/2014 ….. The state congress party had accused the state bjp party of using the former pwd minister Churchill Alemao as their dummy candidate at the upcoming lok sabha elections

 Addressing media person congress spokesperson sunil khauntakar said that mr Alemao was a person who had never worked for the welfare of the state or for the congress party but had always worked for his family personnel gains

Mr khauntankar questioned the state chief minister Manohar Parrikar as why it had taken two years time to put mr Alemao behind bars in corruption cases which he had filed at the state police station

22/03/2014 … Former pwd minister Churchill alemao finally resigned from the congress party on Saturday and has decided to contest the April 12 lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate …

Mr alemao who along with his supporters came to the party head office in Panjim and handed over his resignation letter to the gpcc president mr john Fernandes in the presence of congress members

Speaking to media reporters the former pwd minister said that he could file his nomination form in the next week as he was seriously upset after his party had given the party ticket to reginaldo lourenco

Alemao blamed some of the congress leaders for playing with his sentiments by not giving the lok Sabha ticket to his daughter velanka alemao

gpcc president john Fernandes said that since people of the state had decided two years back the congress party would not have any effect of the resignation give by mr alemao from the congress party

Meanwhile warren alemao said that central leaders had also done injustice to the alemao family when so much of work the alemao family had done for the congress party in the past many years