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> o UGDP Matanhy Saldanha's disqualification case comes up Friday, Mar 04. RESPONSE: The Governor has thrown a spanner in the works - only a floor test - nothing else! > o Whips have been issued by the UGDP asking its lone MLA, > Matanhy Saldanha, to back the confidence vote. > o Tight security expected in the Goa assembly. Buses and mini-buses RESPONSE: Whip can be instituted - Matanhy does not have to follow. He can be expelled from UGDP but in my opinion he cannot be thrown out of the House. > o Crucial paper from Filipe Neri's disqualification file missing, > says Sardinha. RESPONSE: There will be no crucial paper forthcoming. The perpetrators of the forgery will not want to produce evidence implicating themselves. GOMANTAK TIMES TELLS IT BLUNTLY: Virtually minutes after former > Speaker Vishwas Satarkar read out his resignation from a clumsy > handwritten note and adjourned the Goa Assembly sine die, he > quietly took home with him a sensitive and crucial file on which > the future of the Rane-led government hinges -- the deputy chief > minister Felipe Neri Rodrigues' disqualification case. > > It now transpired that Satarkar kept this file with him for close > to 44 hours after he ceased to be the Speaker. It was only after > his successor, interim Speaker Francisco Sardinha announced that > the file was missing and a police complaint was lodged that > Satarkar rushed to the Assembly on Wednesday morning and returned > the file to Secretary (Legislature) S B Narvekar.(GT) RESPONSE: Yes but minus the crucial original form that Neri is alleged to have signed! What a diabolical situation, reducing the status of the Speaker to the lowest of the lows! > o Satarkar returns Filipe Neri's file; crucial membership > form carrying the allegedly forged signature of Rodrigues > is missing. Satarkar returned the file to the legsiature > secretary Sudin Narvekar, and the latter communicated to > the Porvorim police that the file had been found. Satarkar > told the media he had kept the file with him for the last > 15 days "to keep it very safe". (NT) RESPONSE: What happened to the original form for BJP membership - did he not keep that very safe? Seeing that was the central document with regard to Neri's expulsion. Comment: It now appears highly likely that Goa is heading for President's rule. Eventually the Congress will come through. Jitendra Deshprabhu should be installed as C.M. He is the most Loyal of the Congress lot and Goa needs someone new at the helm. The People of Goa should by now realise that even though the BJP may have performed, it is only after a proper audit that the true facts will be known. Also the people will realise the favouritism doled out by the BJP, wherein they installed their own people in all strata of Government Administration. Time to correct these anomalies! cheers, Gabe Menezes. Wimbledon, England.
