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---------- Forwarded message ---------- NCP says 'no' Quislings Friday, May 03, 2002 - 01:46 PM GMT+5:30 Can the Congress in Goa afford to renominate defectors and hope to win the election, or will it suffer a public backlash? The party, which is in a one-to-one battle in this state with the BJP, saw three of its governments sink since 1998, with wholesale defections, writes Deccan Herald's Devika Sequeira ********************************************************************* DEMOCRACY IN DANGER in GOA Friday, May 03, 2002 - 01:38 PM GMT+5:30 This is the Goa Church's Diocesan Service Centre for Social Action's statement for the forthcoming elections. Corruption, communalism... and the debate-provoing suggestion to "identify and promote a third candidate, if the choice is between a communal and a corrupt one". Do you agree? ********************************************************************* Church puts BJP on the defensive in Goa Thursday, May 02, 2002 - 06:31 PM GMT+5:30 Devika Sequeira of Deccan Herald says the BJP has found itself at a disadvantage in the Assembly election here, due to its handling of the communal violence in Gujarat ********************************************************************* Goa CM blames Gujarat violence on bad governance Tuesday, April 30, 2002 Sandesh Prabhudesai in Panaji (Courtesy: Rediff.com) reports: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party, has said that bad governance is the cause of the communal violence in Gujarat. "Good governance by my government in Goa could be adopted as a model by all states in the country that are hit by group violence," the IIT engineer-turned-politician said. ********************************************************************* Targetting its guns on corruption: Goa Suraj Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 03:27 PM GMT+5:30 Goa Su-raj party came into being as an answer to the current state of affairs in Goa including politics of aya-Ram gaya-Ram (frequent floor crossings). The party is striving hard to promote good persons to clean the Goan polity. It is perhaps the only political party which does not authorise its executive committee members to contest elections. Goa Su-Raj says it has a vision for good governance and also has an answer to prevent elected members from defecting, says party president FLORIANO LOBO in an interview with Ashley do Rosario. ********************************************************************* How to get the most of this site... Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 10:14 PM GMT+5:30 Freenewsgoa.net is still in the beta testing stages. Some tips to get the most of this site, including details of how to post your comments to stories already posted... and how to vote in a poll. ********************************************************************* 'India was secular even before Muslims and Christians came here...' Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 11:40 PM GMT+5:30 Reprinted here is the English text of the speech, delivered in Hindi, by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at a public meeting in Goa on April 12. This speech raked up a major row nationwide, with clarifications coming in from the PMO (Prime Minister's Office). ********************************************************************* BJP banking on stability plank to ride back to power in the State Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 08:06 PM GMT+5:30 The Bharatiya Janata Party claims to swear by a dharma that is entirely against defections. How, then, does it explain its own ascent to power during the 31-month tenure of the just dissolved assembly a la defections? In an interview with ASHLEY do ROSARIO, its general secretary and spokesman, Govind Parvatkar, claims that the party was forced to rely on defections, if only to "teach" a lesson to the Congress, which was desperately attempting to lure BJP MLAs. He also speaks about the party's chances in the polls, the impact of Vajpayee's speech in Goa, and whether politicians in Goa deserting the BJP will mar its chances. ********************************************************************* PARRIKAR: ENGINEERING ANOTHER GOA... Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 03:51 PM GMT+5:30 WILL HE make it? Metallurgical engineer Manohar Parrikar, who ascended the chief ministership of Goa after engineering defections from the other parties and alloying a quaint but shaky and ideologically-disparate coalition, has made a big gamble. Going in for mid-term elections. PAMELA D'MELLO hears from the Goa CM, just before he faces a crucial poll... on a range of issues. On how he takes on his opponents, what the BJP chances in the election are, the communal situation in the state, taxes on citizens... and whether he changed the rules of the game by jailing political opponents. ********************************************************************* =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
