PANJIM: NCP president Sharad Pawar's directive to Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat to re-induct controversial MLA Fransisco Pacheco in the ministry resulted in a group of 10 Congress legislators tonight threatening to topple its own government in such an eventuality.
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The government would be toppled within minutes if Pacheco, a former tourism minister, is sworn-in, the MLAs said at a press conference here.
Asserting that they would not bow down to any diktat even if it is from the party high command, the legislators, led by Public Works Department minister Churchill Alemao, asked Congress general secretary B Hariprasad, in-charge of state affairs, to immediately rush to Goa to resolve the crisis.
Along with Churchill Alemao, Congress MLAs Joaquim Alemao, Agnelo Fernandes, Philip Nery Rodrigues, Fransico Silveira, Atanasio Monserratte, Pandurang Madkaikar, Manohar Asgaonkar, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco and Chandrakant Kavlekar are lobbying against Pacheco's induction.
Goa is facing a fresh round of political instability, ever since NCP asked both its ministers ?- Jose Philip D'Souza and Nilkant Halarnkar, to quit from the state cabinet.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, earlier this morning, asked Chief Minister Digamber Kamat to immediately drop the two NCP ministers and swear-in Pacheco. "Pacheco has a murder case against him. He is also named as an accused in money laundering case. We don't want anyone with tainted character in the cabinet," Alemao said reminding that Congress had dropped its own MLA Dayanand Narvekar when his name figured in the infamous ODI ticket scam.
The 40-seat Goa Legislative Assembly has 20 Congress, 14 BJP, three NCP, two Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party and one independent legislator. Alemao said demands of the group were in line with the policy of Congress to not allow tainted persons take over as ministers in the state government.
The minister said that although Pacheco's induction is a look out of NCP, Congress should have a say in it. "What is the need to destabilise the current cabinet? Why should two ministers be dropped to induct a tainted character?" Alemao asked.
He said that Congress-NCP in Maharashtra removed Ashok Chavan as the chief minister after his name cropped up in the Adarsh scam. "A similar formula should be adopted in Goa," he added.
Goa education minister Atanasio Monserratte said that the entire group is together because Pacheco's induction would send a wrong signal.
When asked why the presence of Monserratte, who also faces a criminal charge for allegedly attacking a police station, in the state cabinet was not questioned by the group, Alemao refused to comment on it.
Although the group has warned Kamat of toppling his government, Alemao refrained from stating whether they will pull out the support or resign en masse. "We can even go (to the polls) without NCP in the state as we have enough numbers on our side," the minister said, adding that they were ready to face polls even tomorrow. – PTI
No POZDDO like Mickky should be a minister not even a peon in any company though mickky is fit for the peon's job and has all the qualifications for it. He also holds a master's degree in EPW (Expert in Patting Women)
ReplyDeleteThis is our disgusting 'democracy' for us....all rouges fighting who should be the biggest LOOTER of Goa! Yet, we have a few on this blog that are so proud of our so-called 'liberation'! Goa is being looted day and night by these clowns and their drug dealing, raping, smuggling, murdering, looting families!!! Oh...I forgot, it’s all the ‘evil’ Portuguese’s fault!!!!!! So much to celebrate for the ‘Golden Jubilee’!!!
ReplyDeleteOne criminal is missing in the picture that is Mauvin Godinho.Chorchill is fooling Goans.With huge kickbacks at stake through 4 lane National Highway do anyone believe that he is try to dislodge the corrupt Government on account of induction of sex slave Mickey Mouse in the cabinet? Wherever he goes chorchill talk in support of 4 lane national highway. Time will come these thieves along with their families will have a terrible death.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Sharad Pawar so bent on inducting the bloody Mickey Mouse in the Ministry? Is he also part of the Mouses's money laundering? This monkey Pawar makes me sick to look at his face. He needs plastic surgery for reconstructing his face first before he starts talking too much with his bent jaw.
ReplyDeleteIn the picture the destructors of Goan Soil are in different shapes and sizes, is there an ounce of honesty between them? If the government is brought down so be it, then we can kick NCP and "non Goan interest" parties out of Goa. Do we Goans have the will to unite and fight for the right?
ReplyDeleteGood going
ReplyDeleteOne of the mastermind gold smuggler of Varca, Goa and the most corrupt sob is trying his hand at being the Spokesperson of his party against his rival Mickey Pacheco the accused criminal, a casanova and a human smuggler of Betalbetim, Goa.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful.