Goa Elections

Among the 10 states and two Union Territories that went to polls, only three - Chhattisgarh, Goa, and Karnataka - recorded an increase in turnout compared to 2019.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday urged the people of Goa to vote for INDIA bloc candidates in the Lok Sabha elections "to protect democracy, diversity, stop corruption and 'washing machine politics'".

Amid the debate over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that UCC is already in place in the state of Goa and everyone is living happily there.

BJP MLA Sankalp Amonkar filed a police complaint on Wednesday against Congress' South Goa candidate Viriato Fernandes under the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act, 1971, over his controversial statements about the Constitution.

Seizing on the remarks by the party's South Goa candidate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hit out at the party and Rahul Gandhi, accusing them of insulting BR Ambdekar's Constitution and attempting to break the country.

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Chanpreet Singh, who allegedly "managed" cash funds for AAP's campaign in the 2022 Goa Assembly polls, in connection with the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said Monday.

The Aam Aadmi Party has spent Rs 45 crore on the election in Goa and there is enough evidence that party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was involved in money laundering, the Enforcement Directorate told the Delhi High Court yesterday.

AAP Goa chief Amit Palekar on Tuesday rejected the claims that funds generated through Delhi's alleged excise policy-linked scam powered the party's campaign ahead of the 2022 assembly polls in the coastal state.

The executive director of Dempo Industries, Pallavi Dempo, is the first woman candidate in the BJP's Goa poll history.

Union Minister Shripad Naik will contest from North Goa Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket for the sixth time in a row.

The Congress and the AAP - who this week delivered the INDIA bloc's first electoral win, in the Chandigarh mayoral poll - have finalised seat-share deals for Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, Gujarat, Goa, and Haryana, sources told NDTV Friday afternoon.

The AAP and the Congress have agreed seat-sharing deals for Delhi, Gujarat, Goa, Chandigarh, and Haryana ahead of the Lok Sabha election, sources said, in signs the struggling INDIA bloc - formed last year to defeat the ruling BJP.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday indicated that it was keen on contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Goa, with Arvind Kejriwal saying his party was holding talks on a seat in the coastal state with INDIA bloc constituents.

A Delhi court has granted bail to two men who were accused of being instrumental in the alleged transfer of Rs 44 crore kickbacks from Delhi to Goa for election expenses of AAP in the Delhi excise policy case.

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sadanand Shet Tanavade was on Tuesday declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Goa.

Among the 10 states and two Union Territories that went to polls, only three - Chhattisgarh, Goa, and Karnataka - recorded an increase in turnout compared to 2019.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday urged the people of Goa to vote for INDIA bloc candidates in the Lok Sabha elections "to protect democracy, diversity, stop corruption and 'washing machine politics'".

Amid the debate over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that UCC is already in place in the state of Goa and everyone is living happily there.

BJP MLA Sankalp Amonkar filed a police complaint on Wednesday against Congress' South Goa candidate Viriato Fernandes under the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act, 1971, over his controversial statements about the Constitution.

Seizing on the remarks by the party's South Goa candidate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hit out at the party and Rahul Gandhi, accusing them of insulting BR Ambdekar's Constitution and attempting to break the country.

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Chanpreet Singh, who allegedly "managed" cash funds for AAP's campaign in the 2022 Goa Assembly polls, in connection with the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said Monday.

The Aam Aadmi Party has spent Rs 45 crore on the election in Goa and there is enough evidence that party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was involved in money laundering, the Enforcement Directorate told the Delhi High Court yesterday.

AAP Goa chief Amit Palekar on Tuesday rejected the claims that funds generated through Delhi's alleged excise policy-linked scam powered the party's campaign ahead of the 2022 assembly polls in the coastal state.

The executive director of Dempo Industries, Pallavi Dempo, is the first woman candidate in the BJP's Goa poll history.

Union Minister Shripad Naik will contest from North Goa Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket for the sixth time in a row.

The Congress and the AAP - who this week delivered the INDIA bloc's first electoral win, in the Chandigarh mayoral poll - have finalised seat-share deals for Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, Gujarat, Goa, and Haryana, sources told NDTV Friday afternoon.

The AAP and the Congress have agreed seat-sharing deals for Delhi, Gujarat, Goa, Chandigarh, and Haryana ahead of the Lok Sabha election, sources said, in signs the struggling INDIA bloc - formed last year to defeat the ruling BJP.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday indicated that it was keen on contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Goa, with Arvind Kejriwal saying his party was holding talks on a seat in the coastal state with INDIA bloc constituents.

A Delhi court has granted bail to two men who were accused of being instrumental in the alleged transfer of Rs 44 crore kickbacks from Delhi to Goa for election expenses of AAP in the Delhi excise policy case.

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sadanand Shet Tanavade was on Tuesday declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Goa.