Rane inducts 7 Congmen
Sandesh Prabhudesai
10 June 2005
Amidst Nationalist Congress Party’s threat to withdraw
support to the four-day old Pratapsing Rane government, seven
Congressmen were today morning inducted in the Congress-led
alliance government.
These included three legislators who got elected in the recently
held by-polls – Digambar Kamat, Babush Monserette and
Pandurang Madkaikar. They had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party
in February, toppling four-year old Manohar Parrikar government.
The other four include Luizinho Faleiro, Dayanand Narvekar,
Subhash Shirodkar and Joaquim Alemao.
Micky Pacheco, the NCP legislator who had also quit the BJP
and got re-elected in the by-polls, has not been included.
Deputy chief minister Wilfred de Souza, the local NCP leader,
has thus threatened to withdraw support to the government,
if Pacheco is not included.
Goa has a limit of 12 member-cabinet while Rane has still
kept two seats vacant, inducting only 10 ministers till date.
Meanwhile, NCP president has reportedly decided to send his
party emissaries to Goa to discuss with the local Congress
leaders and resolve the issue.
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