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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to visit Goa today, months ahead of 2022 polls

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to visit Goa today, months ahead of 2022 polls

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit Goa on Saturday, a few months before the parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in the coastal states next year, to meet with party workers and people. The Chairman of the National Congress Goa Party, Girish Jordanka, told the news agency PTI on Tuesday that Gandhi will deliver a party workers’ meeting at the SPM Stadium in Bambolim, near Panaji, and will participate in various other party-level events during the day.

On Sunday, the leaders of Congress will meet with fishermen in Velsao. “Rahul Gandhi will interact with fishermen in Velsao (a coastal village) and people who will be affected by the railway multiplication project (traveling through the same village),” Jordanka said. Chodankar added that Gandhi will also meet people affected by the mining shutdown in Panaji, and then address the party workers’ assembly at the SPM Stadium. Gandhi’s visit came two days after the top leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, began a three-day visit to Goa on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi, Payaka Gandhi and other senior leaders of the Congress attended the meeting in New Delhi. In 2022, they will discuss with Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur to be held in Goa. Parliamentary elections. As one of the main opposition parties in Goa, the National Assembly is preparing to fight for a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The party leader P Chidambaram, who has been appointed as a senior election observer for the 2022 term of Congress, asserts that Congress is best able to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and form the next government in Goa. “We enter the election arena with the intention of winning the election and forming a Congress government in 2022,” Chidambaram told PTI on October 24, adding that the party’s preparations are methodical and strong.

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In the 2017 elections, the National Congress Party became the largest single political party in Goa. However, the BJP was unable to come to power because of alliances with some independents and regional parties to form a government.

News Source : Hindustan Times

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IDF releases video of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar dodging drone moments before death

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IDF releases video of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar dodging drone moments before death

Yahya Sinwar, who was the alleged mastermind behind the October 7 attacks, was killed in Gaza on Wednesday.

The Israeli Defence Forces or IDF released footage from a drone on Friday that captured Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar moments before his death in a firefight against the troops in Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday.

The video shows a building filled with debris, where a man is sitting on an armchair covered with dust with his face wrapped, who is supposedly Sinwar. He then proceeds to throw a stick towards, the drone but misses.

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Along with Sinwar, the IDF also confirmed the death of two other “terrorists”.

Yahya Sinwar took over as the chief of Hamas after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in July 2024. He was supposedly the architect of the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the conflict in the Gaza strip.

Also ReadYahya Sinwar death live updates: Netanyahu vows Gaza war ‘not over’ after Israel kills Hamas chief

Sinwar’s death has been celebrated by Israel as well as its key allies, the US and France.

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After Sinwar’s death Israeli prime minister Netanyahu released a video statement, where he stated, “Today we have settled the score. Today evil has been dealt a blow but our task has still not been completed.”

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called Sinwar the “chief obstacle” to ending the war and expressed hope for more headway in the peace process.

French president Emmanuel Macron has also expressed the hope that hostages will be returned now that the political head of the militant organisation is dead.

However, Iran, has stated that the death of Sinwar will only serve as a catalyst for further resistance against Israel.

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The Hezbollah also proclaimed that after the death of Sinwar they were going to “transition to a new and escalating phase in the confrontation with Israel.”

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