Digambar Kamat News

Goa Congress veteran Digambar Kamat explained why he joined BJP He said it was God's wish for him to quit Congress Kamat and 7 other Congress MLAs today joined BJP

Congress has managed to avert a major crisis in its Goa unit for now The party managed to avert a major split into the party Sending positive signals, 10 out of 11 Goa Congress MLAs attended a crucial party meet

Congress is concerned over the BJP conspiring to engineer defection in the party as five party MLAs go incommunicado Sonia Gandhi has asked party MP Mukul Wasnik to rush to the coastal state to oversee the latest political developments Congress also sacked Michael Lobo as the Leader of Opposition in the Goa Assembly for alleged conspiracy to engineer defections

The BJP, which won 20 out of 40 seats in the last month's Goa Assembly elections and has secured support of the two Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party MLAs and three Independents, has yet to stake a claim to form new government.

Rahul Gandhi was present when Goa candidates took anti-defection oath. Goa will go to polls on Feb 14.

Kamat said that the BJP government must now stop fooling people and start fulfilling the promises made to the people of Goa.

Commenting on the health of Parrikar, Deputy Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar that the CM has been critical.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Goa crime branch has arrested an iron ore trader in connection with a multi-crore mining scam.

Former Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat was granted ex-parte anticipatory bail by a trial court here on Monday, over the Rs 35,000 crore illegal mining case which is under investigation.

The Panaji District and Sessions Court on Monday granted ex-parte interim bail to former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat in connection with the 2013 mining scam case.

The Special Investigation Team of the Goa Crime Branch has summoned former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Monday in connection with investigations into the illegal mining scam, after he skipped the summons earlier week.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing an alleged illegal mining scam, on Friday issued fresh summons to former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat to appear before it on April 24.

The Congress has promised five litres of free petrol per month to every college student, who has a valid driving license.

After losing the coastal state to BJP in 2012 polls, the Congress party is now looking to revive its fortunes in Goa through upcoming State Legislative Assembly Elections.

Elections to the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly would be held on February 4.

The Goa Police's Crime Branch on Thursday filed a supplementary charge-sheet against former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.2 crore from Louis Berger India officials for securing contracts for a water and sewerage augmentation project funded by the Japan International Co-Operation Agency (JICA).

The special public prosecutor representing the state in Louis Berger bribery scandal in Goa has decided to withdraw from appearing in the case.

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has upheld the order of a trial court here that granted anticipatory bail to former Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat in the Louis Berger bribery case.

The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday upheld a lower court's order granting anticipatory bail to former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat in the Louis Berger bribery case.

Former Goa chief minister Churchill Alemao and former project director of the compromised JICA funded project Anand Wachasundar were granted bail by a special court here on Monday in connection with the Louis Berger bribery case.