Rebels retreat, rush
to Delhi
Sandesh Prabhudesai
19 January 2008
The political drama took a different turn today with three
leaders of adamant rebel group rushing to Delhi while Babush
Monseratte stating that three ministers would be stripped
off major portfolios.
Retreating from their adamant stand not to go to Delhi to
meet the national leaders, NCP member Micky Pacheco, MGP leader
Sudin Dhavalikar and independent MLA Vishwajeet Rane today
rushed to the national capital.
Monseratte, sitting in Goa unlike his rebel colleagues, claimed
that the high command had agreed to take away finance, PWD
and home from Dayanand Narvekar, Churchill Alemao and Ravi
Naik respectively.
He also claimed that the leaders of the Congress and the
NCP, who have been meeting in Delhi since yesterday, have
agreed to scrap the IT habitat project, initiated by Narvekar
in Taleigao. Babush had started a violent agitation against
this project.
There are also rumours that Babush would be inducted in the
ministry, along with three who resigned - Jose Philip D'Souza,
Pacheco and Rane, by dropping one minister.
The rebels had earlier demanded cabinet berths for seven,
including Sham Satardekar of the Congress and Jose Lawrence
Reginald of the Save Goa Front.
Since Goa can have a cabinet of not more than 13 ministers,
chief minister Digambar Kamat has to drop at least four ministers.
The high command appears to have bluntly refused the proposal.
Sources claim that three rebels have rushed to Delhi amidst
high command proposal only to induct Babush, besides the three
who had resigned to topple the government.
Kamat, along with MP Francisco Sardinha, is still camping
in Delhi to overcome the second crisis within 222 days.
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