PANAJI: Midnight dramas are speedy changing into a norm rather than an exception in Goan politics. If chief minister Pramod Sawant used to be administered oath within the early hours of the morning remaining week, Goa awoke to some other middle of the night drama as BJP engineered a split in MGP, an alliance spouse, with two of the three MLAs becoming a member of the saffron birthday celebration.
Sawant additionally sacked MGP leader Ramkrishna Dhavalikar, who served as deputy CM for lower than a week.
Tourism minister Manohar Azgaonkar and Sanvordem MLA Deepak Pauskar, both from MGP, joined BJP circumventing the anti-defection regulation that wishes two-third of the legislative wing to break free.
“We have split MGP because we did not want them to contest the Shiroda bypolls where they would have spoken towards our candidate,” mentioned BJP state president Vinay Tendulkar.
Fissure within the birthday celebration resulted in furious reaction from MGP
Following the dying of chief minister Manohar Parrikar when BJP got down to the business of presidency formation, there were talks that MGP would split and break free. With Ramkrishna Dhavalikar eventually finding a place within the cabinet and even being introduced the deputy chief minister’s put up, there looked to be normalcy, until BJP surprised everybody with its post-midnight coup on Wednesday.
With the merger of MGP’s legislature birthday celebration, BJP now has 14 MLAs within the 40-member legislative meeting, the same as opposition Congress. Since Parrikar’s dying, Congress had staked declare to form the government, claiming they were the only greatest birthday celebration.
The two MLAs submitted a letter to deputy speaker Michael Lobo at 1.45am declaring they had decided to merge into BJP. The chief minister, BJP state president and BJP establishing secretary Satish Dhond were all present within the meeting complex at Porvorim.
Soon an order used to be issued, signed via the deputy speaker and legislature secretary declaring that as two contributors of the three-member birthday celebration constitute two-thirds, the legislative wing had merged into BJP as in step with the availability within the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
Sources mentioned Azgaonkar—more likely to be appointed deputy chief minister—will retain his portfolios of tourism and sports, besides being given transport, in the past held via Dhavalikar, who is now the lone MGP MLA within the meeting. His top portfolio of PWD could be given to first-time minister Pauskar.
The split within the birthday celebration resulted in a furious reaction from MGP. There are talks that they would field candidates in all constituencies where bypolls are scheduled to be held together with Lok Sabha elections on April 23. Dhavalikar himself is understood to be weighing his options of contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the South Goa seat.
BJP, even though, stays unperturbed. “The Dhavalikar brothers were running the birthday celebration like their private fiefdom. Even if MJP field candidates far and wide, even for Lok Sabha elections, BJP will triumph,” mentioned Tendulkar.
The middle of the night split in MGP may have taken everybody via surprise however sources mentioned this used to be long time coming. Even when Parrikar used to be in poor health and expressed his want to step down as chief minister, there were talks that a split in MGP used to be imminent. It all stemmed from Azgaonkar’s assurance to BJP that he together with Pauskar would sign up for the birthday celebration, if Dhavalikar used to be dropped from the cupboard and his place passed over to Pauskar.
That didn’t occur. But Parrikar’s dying on March 17 spark off a flurry of activities. During govt formation when Dhavalikar performed hard-ball, plan to engineer a split within the birthday celebration used to be revived, and although Dhavalikar looked as if it would have bought himself some respiring area, the plan wasn’t solely put on the backburner.
MGP’s insistence on contesting the bypolls in Shiroda despite an assurance to Union minister Nitin Gadkari used to be the overall straw. MGP president Pandurang 'Deepak' Dhavalikar has been campaigning in Shiroda since Subhash Shirodkar quit Congress to join BJP and he told BJP leaders that it used to be “too late” for him to withdraw from the fray.
Local leaders had additionally despatched video clippings of Deepak’s campaign in Shiroda making the divorce inevitable.
For a while now, BJP used to be wooing MGP legislators to join the birthday celebration to extend its power within the meeting. The discussion started nearly a month ago but it surely used to be no longer until Tuesday that the plan used to be put into action.
Sources mentioned there used to be a variety of activity on Tuesday, starting with a gathering in Panaji. The meeting concluded inside of a couple of hours after both parties agreed to the phrases and prerequisites. BJP leaders later communicated the merger decision to its central management for approval. Once they got the nod at round 12.30am, BJP wasted no time in finishing the formalities.
According to a senior leader, it used to be first decided to finish the merger on Wednesday at round 10.30am however nobody sought after to depart the rest to likelihood.
Meanwhile, talks that Congress MLA Isidore Fernandes would additionally quit the birthday celebration and sign up for BJP on Wednesday proved to be a false alarm in any case.
Sawant additionally sacked MGP leader Ramkrishna Dhavalikar, who served as deputy CM for lower than a week.
Tourism minister Manohar Azgaonkar and Sanvordem MLA Deepak Pauskar, both from MGP, joined BJP circumventing the anti-defection regulation that wishes two-third of the legislative wing to break free.
“We have split MGP because we did not want them to contest the Shiroda bypolls where they would have spoken towards our candidate,” mentioned BJP state president Vinay Tendulkar.
Fissure within the birthday celebration resulted in furious reaction from MGP
Following the dying of chief minister Manohar Parrikar when BJP got down to the business of presidency formation, there were talks that MGP would split and break free. With Ramkrishna Dhavalikar eventually finding a place within the cabinet and even being introduced the deputy chief minister’s put up, there looked to be normalcy, until BJP surprised everybody with its post-midnight coup on Wednesday.
With the merger of MGP’s legislature birthday celebration, BJP now has 14 MLAs within the 40-member legislative meeting, the same as opposition Congress. Since Parrikar’s dying, Congress had staked declare to form the government, claiming they were the only greatest birthday celebration.
The two MLAs submitted a letter to deputy speaker Michael Lobo at 1.45am declaring they had decided to merge into BJP. The chief minister, BJP state president and BJP establishing secretary Satish Dhond were all present within the meeting complex at Porvorim.
Soon an order used to be issued, signed via the deputy speaker and legislature secretary declaring that as two contributors of the three-member birthday celebration constitute two-thirds, the legislative wing had merged into BJP as in step with the availability within the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
Sources mentioned Azgaonkar—more likely to be appointed deputy chief minister—will retain his portfolios of tourism and sports, besides being given transport, in the past held via Dhavalikar, who is now the lone MGP MLA within the meeting. His top portfolio of PWD could be given to first-time minister Pauskar.
The split within the birthday celebration resulted in a furious reaction from MGP. There are talks that they would field candidates in all constituencies where bypolls are scheduled to be held together with Lok Sabha elections on April 23. Dhavalikar himself is understood to be weighing his options of contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the South Goa seat.
BJP, even though, stays unperturbed. “The Dhavalikar brothers were running the birthday celebration like their private fiefdom. Even if MJP field candidates far and wide, even for Lok Sabha elections, BJP will triumph,” mentioned Tendulkar.
The middle of the night split in MGP may have taken everybody via surprise however sources mentioned this used to be long time coming. Even when Parrikar used to be in poor health and expressed his want to step down as chief minister, there were talks that a split in MGP used to be imminent. It all stemmed from Azgaonkar’s assurance to BJP that he together with Pauskar would sign up for the birthday celebration, if Dhavalikar used to be dropped from the cupboard and his place passed over to Pauskar.
That didn’t occur. But Parrikar’s dying on March 17 spark off a flurry of activities. During govt formation when Dhavalikar performed hard-ball, plan to engineer a split within the birthday celebration used to be revived, and although Dhavalikar looked as if it would have bought himself some respiring area, the plan wasn’t solely put on the backburner.
MGP’s insistence on contesting the bypolls in Shiroda despite an assurance to Union minister Nitin Gadkari used to be the overall straw. MGP president Pandurang 'Deepak' Dhavalikar has been campaigning in Shiroda since Subhash Shirodkar quit Congress to join BJP and he told BJP leaders that it used to be “too late” for him to withdraw from the fray.
Local leaders had additionally despatched video clippings of Deepak’s campaign in Shiroda making the divorce inevitable.
For a while now, BJP used to be wooing MGP legislators to join the birthday celebration to extend its power within the meeting. The discussion started nearly a month ago but it surely used to be no longer until Tuesday that the plan used to be put into action.
Sources mentioned there used to be a variety of activity on Tuesday, starting with a gathering in Panaji. The meeting concluded inside of a couple of hours after both parties agreed to the phrases and prerequisites. BJP leaders later communicated the merger decision to its central management for approval. Once they got the nod at round 12.30am, BJP wasted no time in finishing the formalities.
According to a senior leader, it used to be first decided to finish the merger on Wednesday at round 10.30am however nobody sought after to depart the rest to likelihood.
Meanwhile, talks that Congress MLA Isidore Fernandes would additionally quit the birthday celebration and sign up for BJP on Wednesday proved to be a false alarm in any case.
In midnight coup, BJP splits alliance partner MGP, drops Dhavalikar
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