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DEAR SIR
START A CAMPAIGN TO THROW OUT ALL THESE SO CALLED POLITICIANS
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:43 PM
Subject: [Goanet-News] Digambar Kamat survives in Goa;three votes disallowed
and Speaker's casting vote comes to rescue
> Digambar Kamat survives in Goa, after disallowing 3 votes and
> Speaker's casting vote
>
> By Frederick Noronha
>
> PANAJI Goa, July 30: Goa's chief minister Digambar
> Kamat clung to power by the skin of his teeth, after three
> legislators were disallowed from voting, and the Speaker gave
> his casting vote to save the government on Monday afternoon.
>
> Before the vote, Speaker Pratapsing Rane, a long-term former
> Congress chief minister, passed ad interim exparte orders,
> restraining three legislators -- who had changed sides last
> week -- from voting in the house and taking part in its
> proceedings.
>
> This led to a howl of protest from Opposition leader Manohar
> Parrikar, the BJP strongman who cobbled together an alliance
> of disparate forces in the pre-dawn hours of last Thursday
> and expected to become the chief minister of Goa again this
> week.
>
> Parrikar protested saying the Speaker had violated the
> Goa Governor S C Jamir's fiat to take up the confidence vote
> as the first business of the assembly. He accused the
> government of altering the composition of the assembly.
>
> But the Speaker asked him under which section of law he was
> raising a point of order.
>
> The Opposition protest was steamrolled through, leading
> frustrated BJP members and supporters to troop to the
> Governor's residence at Dona Paula, eight kms from the state
> assembly at Porvorim on the other side of Panaji.
>
> Speaker Rane's casting vote saved the assembly after both
> sides were tied in the 40-member assembly, with each side
> having 18 members (apart from one Speaker and three
> disallowed from voting).
>
> The three disqualified were the Dhavalikar brothers -- Sudin
> and Deepak Dhavalikar -- both representing the
> Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, and Victoria Fernandes who
> sought to resign from the Congress last week.
>
> They were served notice to come up for a hearing on August
> 13. But while this could send out the signal that the
> Congress has won the day, the thin majority it is surviving
> on makes it prone to instability, as also controversy over
> the manner in which it won the vote.
>
> In 2005, instability in the Goa assembly also saw a bitter
> series of disqualification battle, which only made the battle
> for power even more intense. (Ends)
>
