Rebels agree to support Digambar, provided...
Sandesh
Prabhudesai
17 January 2008
The whole political imbroglio
in Goa has ultimately boiled down to negotiating some more concessions from the
Digambar Kamat government. It's neither an alternate government nor the leadership
change.
The high command emissaries of both the Congress and the Nationalist
Congress Party finally succeeded in bringing the rebels to the discussion table
and save the seven-month old Congress-led alliance government.
Precisely
this is the reason the BJP has backed out from the scene.
The emissaries
included Hariprasad and Mabel Rebello of the Congress and Prafull Patel and D
P Tripathi of the NCP.
Jose Philip, the NCP leader, told journalists that
his party colleagues have given all the rights to Mr Patel to negotiate with the
Congress. "We have no problem with the leadership", he added.
Vishwajeet
Rane, the independent, also requested the mediamen not to bring in name of his
father - Pratapsing Rane - into the leadership issue. "He is not in the race
and we have no problem with Digambar," he clarified.
Taleigao MLA Babush
Monseratte also came to terms, though agreed that they had some problems with
the ministers holding portfolios of finance and the PWD - Dayanand Narvekar and
Churchill Alemao.
"I also want the IT habitat to be scrapped",
he added.
Joint meetings between the rebels and the Congress have already
begun. Chief minister Kamat and South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha are negotiating
on behalf of the ruling party.
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