Vijay Sardesai Goa Forward Party

Vijay Sardesai was accompanied by his party colleague Vinod Palyekar, and independent MLA Prasad Shashikant Gaonkar. GFP has three MLAs in the 40-member state assembly.

The Trinamool Congress and the Goa Forward Party (GFP) are in talks - GFP chief Vijay Sardesai met Trinamool boss and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today - over a deal to fight next year's Assembly election together.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the Congress for making PM Modi (and the BJP) "more powerful" by acting as the party's publicist, and appeared to rule out any possibility of an alliance with the GOP before Goa polls.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday met Goa Forward Party chief Vijay Sardesai - who was, till April, an ally of the ruling BJP - to discuss an alliance ahead of elections next year.

The Goa Forward Party walked out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) today, citing "anti-Goan policies" of the BJP-led state government.

Being a Goan in Goa is more important than being an Indian, the coastal state's deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai said on Monday.

The BJP's Pramod Sawant, 45, was sworn in as Goa Chief Minister at 2 am on Monday night as the nation mourned his predecessor Manohar Parrikar. The swift chain of events that ended with a hasty, post-midnight ceremony, started soon after Manohar Parrikar died on Sunday evening. The tough negotiations with BJP allies, which continued overnight, were...

BJP president Amit Shah has stepped in to handle a potential crisis for the party's government in Goa, where the Congress has staked claim to power at a time Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is in hospital. Amit Shah dialed ally Goa Forward's Vijay Sardesai, a minister in the BJP-led government, after allies rejected a plan to have minister Sudhin D...

Spotted with the team that delivered a BJP government in Goa - Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar - is a politician incongruous with the coastal state. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is a BJP member of parliament from Uttar Pradesh, was part of the party contingent on Sunday that declared to reporters that the BJP had ...

The BJP's Manohar Parrikar took oath as Goa's next chief minister today. Eight legislators were sworn in as ministers along with Mr Parrikar at the Raj Bhawan in capital Panaji. The BJP is expected to use the occasion to further consolidate the support that smaller parties and Independents have pledged by liberally allotting ministries to them.

Vijay Sardesai was accompanied by his party colleague Vinod Palyekar, and independent MLA Prasad Shashikant Gaonkar. GFP has three MLAs in the 40-member state assembly.

The Trinamool Congress and the Goa Forward Party (GFP) are in talks - GFP chief Vijay Sardesai met Trinamool boss and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today - over a deal to fight next year's Assembly election together.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed the Congress for making PM Modi (and the BJP) "more powerful" by acting as the party's publicist, and appeared to rule out any possibility of an alliance with the GOP before Goa polls.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday met Goa Forward Party chief Vijay Sardesai - who was, till April, an ally of the ruling BJP - to discuss an alliance ahead of elections next year.

The Goa Forward Party walked out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) today, citing "anti-Goan policies" of the BJP-led state government.

Being a Goan in Goa is more important than being an Indian, the coastal state's deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai said on Monday.

The BJP's Pramod Sawant, 45, was sworn in as Goa Chief Minister at 2 am on Monday night as the nation mourned his predecessor Manohar Parrikar. The swift chain of events that ended with a hasty, post-midnight ceremony, started soon after Manohar Parrikar died on Sunday evening. The tough negotiations with BJP allies, which continued overnight, were...

BJP president Amit Shah has stepped in to handle a potential crisis for the party's government in Goa, where the Congress has staked claim to power at a time Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is in hospital. Amit Shah dialed ally Goa Forward's Vijay Sardesai, a minister in the BJP-led government, after allies rejected a plan to have minister Sudhin D...

Spotted with the team that delivered a BJP government in Goa - Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar - is a politician incongruous with the coastal state. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is a BJP member of parliament from Uttar Pradesh, was part of the party contingent on Sunday that declared to reporters that the BJP had ...

The BJP's Manohar Parrikar took oath as Goa's next chief minister today. Eight legislators were sworn in as ministers along with Mr Parrikar at the Raj Bhawan in capital Panaji. The BJP is expected to use the occasion to further consolidate the support that smaller parties and Independents have pledged by liberally allotting ministries to them.