Save Goa-UGDP to be
merged into Cong?
Sandesh
Prabhudesai
20 January 2008
In an yet another dramatic turn, PWD minister Churchill Alemao
and Taleigao MLA Babush Monseratte yesterday rushed to Delhi
with a proposal to merge both the Save Goa Front and the UGDP
into the Congress.
If agreed upon by the high command, this would strengthen
Congress to 19 and the Congress-NCP combine to 22, in the
40-member House.
The condition however is to keep two-member MGP out and not
to drop Urban Development minister Joaquim Alemao to accommodate
MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar in the cabinet.
Churchill and Babush are also accompanied by Save Goa MLA
Alex Reginald Lawrenco and Joaquim.
Babush, before the crisis started last week, had offered
to merge his UGDP legislature party into the NCP.
However, with the Congress-NCP move to leave him out of the
ruling alliance by striking a deal with the MGP and independent
minister Vishwajeet Rane, Babush has chanted sides to become
a Congressman once again.
Disclosing this plan, sources close to the Alemao camp said
the SGF-UGDP group would meet the Congress high command with
the proposal today in Delhi.
The Congress-NCP had yesterday succeeded in blowing up the
four-day long crisis by splitting the rebel group.
The agreement was to accommodate all three - Joseo Philip
D'Souza and Micky Pacheco of the NCP and Vishwajeet - back
into the cabinet, while inducting Sudin Dhavalikar of the
MGP.
As a result, the high command has reportedly decided to drop
Joaquim and not to strip off Churchill of his lucrative PWD
portfolio.
Babush was totally upset with the deal since he had been
left all alone while Alemao brothers were upset for losing
one cabinet berth in the family.
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