| "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | |
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| Subject: | Goa crisis |
| Date: | Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:15:21 -0000 |
[India News]: Panaji, Jan 29 : At least three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators quit the party in Goa, bringing down its strength in the state assembly to 19 Saturday, but Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar insisted he still enjoyed majority.
The Congress party, however, claimed the three-year-old BJP government had been reduced to a minority and staked its claim to forming a new government.
Parrikar told journalists that he very much had majority support and that the Congress would have to prove its support in the 40-member legislature.
"The Supreme Court has said that the place to prove majority support is the floor of the assembly," Parrikar said. "I am not worried by what the Congress says. I will only go by what the governor says."
State Congress president Luisino Faleiro, however, claimed that the BJP had lost majority support.
The legislators who resigned in quick succession
Saturday were Atanasio Monserratte, former tourism minister Francisco Pacheco and Isidore Fernandes.
Monserratte, who was disillusioned after he was being stripped off the town and country planning portfolio, quit the state cabinet Friday.
"I have been humiliated in such a way that I thought it is better to go home," Monserratte told reporters here.
Fernandes and Pacheco bowed out Saturday, reducing the BJP's strength in the house to 19.
Interestingly, Pacheco, who had earlier withdrawn his support to the Parrikar government, Thursday merged his United Goa Democratic Party (Secular) with the BJP.
Two other legislators, Philip Nery Rodrigues and Sudhir Dhavlikar (Maharasthrawadi Gomantak Party), have also reportedly written to Governor S.C. Jamir, withdrawing their support to the BJP government.
The Congress party, which has 15 members and enjoys the support of the lone Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) member, met Jamir Saturday and
staked its claim to forming a new government.
Goa, which was liberated from Portuguese colonial rule in 1961 and became a state in 1987, has a history of political instability, characterised mainly by defections.
Following a fractured verdict in 2002, the BJP, which won 17 seats, managed to muster the support of five non-Congress legislators and form a government. The Congress won 16 seats.
Goa is one of the six states ruled by the BJP.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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