[Gulf Goans] Dr. WILFRED D'SOUZA without PORTFOLIOS ?

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:48:13 -0700

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=72649

 

Outside support: NCP move leaves D�Souza stunned
RAJU NAYAK
     
Posted online: Wednesday, June 15, 2005

PANAJI, JUNE 14, 2005: The NCP high command has decided not to participate in the Congress-led government in Goa and will instead support it from outside.

The decision has upset its state chief Dr Wilfred D�Souza who is Deputy Chief Minister in the Pratapsinh Rane cabinet and also holds the plum Tourism and Environment portfolios.

D�Souza, who will have to give up his plum portfolios, feigned ignorance about the NCP move.�We don�t know the decision of the high command�, his aide said.

The Deputy Chief Minister last week threatened to withdraw NCP support to the Rane government after his party colleague Mickey Pacheco failed to win a ministerial berth.

Aware that the Rane government survives on a slim majority, D�Souza began to sound out the BJP on forming an alternative government.

This prompted the NCP to rush two observers from Delhi to pacify D�Souza and declare that the party would not pull out of the government. But D�Souza may yet spring a surprise now that he is without a portfolio.

The NCP decision to provide only outside support comes when Rane had reportedly assured Pacheco he would be made sports minister after awarding only two portfolios among his 10-member team. Rane discussed Pacheco�s induction with legislature party members and his cabinet colleagues before conveying the decision to the high command. Today�s NCP decision took even the Goa Congress leadership by surprise.

(Indian Express)

 
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