Digambar wins trust vote
Sandesh
Prabhudesai
30 July 2007
Chief minister Digambar Kamat
won the trust vote today, after restraining two MGP MLAs and one Congress MLA
from voting.
The trust vote was passed by voice vote amidst pandemonium
and a walkout staged by the opposition members.
Prior to the Assembly session,
speaker Pratapsing Rane restrained MGP legislators Sudin and Dipak Dhavalikar
as well as Congress MLA Victoria Fernandes from voting.
They were allowed
to sit in the House. However Fernandes did not attend the session even today.
Rane
did not take up division vote, but, surprisingly said that he had cast his vote.
The
budgetary demands were also later on passed and the House wad adjourned sine die.
Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar later told that they are rushing to
the Raj Bhavan, demanding dismissal of the government since it is still in the
minority.
Meanwhile, Rane has fixed next hearing of the petitions on 13th
August.
By restraining three MLAs, the number had boiled down to 18 on both
the sides, keeping the speaker aside.
It is still not known on what basis
the speaker has announced passing of the motion in such a situation.
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