GL responds: Goans can as well sit back and enjoy the Tamasha; after all they are paying for it. What we are seeing here is a short-term game and a long-term strategy. The long-term strategy is to convince people of the districts that voted for Congress to permanently vote BJP and eliminate the Congress base in Goa. If one is a smart Goan, (elected Congressman from Goa) why would not switch to BJP? What does today's INC in Goa ad elsewhere stand for? As I stated before, behind Rahul Gandhi's honest face, the Congress men and women have been more corrupt than the BJP. The minorities (religious, caste, etc) have been taken for granted by the INC and neglected by the BJP. Now it is time the minorities and their representatives start playing the game and that is what the Goan Congressmen and women are doing.. As far as the law, principles, morality, etc, I would say, "Please do not put us to sleep." Regards, GL --------------------------- Devika Sequeira wrote: Subject: Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads Anti-Defection Law. Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads Anti-Defection Law. Considering the Pramod Sawant-led coalition government was under no threat, the BJP's gleeful embrace of the turncoats has also shaken the saffron party's core supporters in the state. Goa's Voters Lose as BJP Deliberately Misreads Anti-Defection Law
Panaji, (Goa): The defection of 10 Congress MLAs to the BJP in Goa has not only plunged the already embattled national party into its worst crisis in the state in recent years but has also shaken the saffron party's core supporters, who have been left astounded by the BJP national leadership's gleeful embrace of the turncoats. Three of the defectors will now be accommodated as ministers in the state government -- a far cry from the legal requirement that all of them be disqualified for switching loyalties. The Congress, which won 17 seats in the 2017 assembly election and was actually the single largest party -- the BJP managed to win only 13 seats -- is now left with just five MLAs. The BJP rank and file's disapproval is understandable -- after all, the Pramod Sawant-led coalition government in Goa was under no threat. Four short of a majority on its own (17 in a house of 40) till Wednesday's events, six members from the Goa Forward Party and independents had helped the BJP cruise comfortably through half the term. Modi's overwhelming victory in May had also ensured the allies stayed on.
