Taxi operators have denied that they have a monopoly in Goa and have said that taxi fares are based on the prices fixed by the transport department. They submitted a memorandum to the directorate of transport saying that the taxi business provides income to Goa’s unemployed youth. This comes in the wake of the transport minister Mauvin Godinho’s statement on bringing cab aggregators to Goa.

State Congress president Amit Patkar on Wednesday said that Tuesday’s order of the high court of Bombay at Goa with regards to the panchayat polls has “exposed how the BJP-led government has failed the OBC community of Goa”.

State Congress and Shiv Sena accused BJP of misusing government machinery to protect Sena’s rebel MLAs.

Rebel Shiv Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde arrived in Goa on Wednesday night. After their arrival at Goa International Airport at Dabolim, they were taken to a starred hotel at Dona Paula. Sources said they have only a one-day booking at the hotel.

The high court of Bombay at Goa on Wednesday reserved its order on the state government’s application seeking an extension of one month to conduct the panchayat election.

BJP functionaries, middlemen and “agents” who took money from candidates for the 350 PWD junior engineers’ posts should immediately return the money, demanded GFP on Wednesday. The party said that it will address a press conference with the candidates and present evidence of the bribes taken if the candidates do not get their hard-earned money back.