http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=70888&cat=India Goa to come under President's Rule:- New Delhi | March 04, 2005 7:44:37 PM IST New Delhi, March 4 : The central cabinet Friday decided to impose the President's Rule in Goa.
A hurriedly called cabinet meeting decided on the measure in crisis-hit Goa, hours after Congress Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane, in office for only a month, won a controversial vote of confidence. "In order to avoid a constitutional crisis in the state, the cabinet has decided to impose President's Rule in Goa," Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters after the cabinet meeting. Patil said the developments in the Goa assembly earlier in the day had "repeated" the mistakes of the former speaker, who had ordered the physical removal of a legislator to create an artificial majority for the then-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. In Friday's trust vote also, the pro-term speaker restrained a legislator supporting the BJP from voting and cast his own vote to give a majority to the Congress-led government. -- Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London, England
