07-28-2007, 08:57 PM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Seeks intervention for Parrikar as Goa CM
The BJP on Saturday took the political crisis in Goa to Rashtrapati Bhawan and paraded 20 MLAs supporting its claim of majority before President Pratibha Patil.Â
<b>Confronting Patil with her first test of impartiality after an acrimonious Presidential poll, they urged her "to carry forward the legacy of the high office you hold" and ensure that the floor test on Monday was not stalled.</b>
BJP president Rajnath Singh led the MLAs from Panaji and urged Patil to direct the Goa Governor to allow BJP Assembly leader Manohar Parrikar to form the Government. "The direction should be that the first agenda of the day is the trial of strength, which must be done in the presence of the observer and proceedings be videographed," Singh told reporters after meeting the President.
The BJP-led-Goa Democratic Alliance has claimed it had the numbers to form Government after the Digambar Kamat-led Congress Government was reduced to a minority.
Apart from 14 BJP MLAs, two Maharashtra Gomantak Party (MGP) legislators, two Save Goa Front MLAs, a United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) MLA, Independent Anil Salgaoncar also accompanied Singh to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
"The Kamat Government has been reduced to a minority and has skipped the sitting of the Assembly on Friday," Leader of Opposition in Goa assembly Manohar Parrikar told reporters after meeting Patil. Parrikar, who has been elected as leader of the GDA, also claimed support of Independent MLA Vishwajeet Rane, son of the Speaker and former Chief Minister Pratapsinh Rane. "Vishwajeet has smsed me extending support to the BJP-led alliance," he said.
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Seeks intervention for Parrikar as Goa CM
The BJP on Saturday took the political crisis in Goa to Rashtrapati Bhawan and paraded 20 MLAs supporting its claim of majority before President Pratibha Patil.Â
<b>Confronting Patil with her first test of impartiality after an acrimonious Presidential poll, they urged her "to carry forward the legacy of the high office you hold" and ensure that the floor test on Monday was not stalled.</b>
BJP president Rajnath Singh led the MLAs from Panaji and urged Patil to direct the Goa Governor to allow BJP Assembly leader Manohar Parrikar to form the Government. "The direction should be that the first agenda of the day is the trial of strength, which must be done in the presence of the observer and proceedings be videographed," Singh told reporters after meeting the President.
The BJP-led-Goa Democratic Alliance has claimed it had the numbers to form Government after the Digambar Kamat-led Congress Government was reduced to a minority.
Apart from 14 BJP MLAs, two Maharashtra Gomantak Party (MGP) legislators, two Save Goa Front MLAs, a United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) MLA, Independent Anil Salgaoncar also accompanied Singh to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
"The Kamat Government has been reduced to a minority and has skipped the sitting of the Assembly on Friday," Leader of Opposition in Goa assembly Manohar Parrikar told reporters after meeting Patil. Parrikar, who has been elected as leader of the GDA, also claimed support of Independent MLA Vishwajeet Rane, son of the Speaker and former Chief Minister Pratapsinh Rane. "Vishwajeet has smsed me extending support to the BJP-led alliance," he said.
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