: BJP outsmarting Oppn in Goa, Cong still on shaky ground #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics Panaji, July 17 (IANS) Despite the Congress emerging as the largest party in the 2017 Goa Assembly election with

BJP outsmarting Oppn in Goa, Cong still on shaky ground #IndiaNEWS #National ,Politics
Panaji, July 17 (IANS) Despite the Congress emerging as the largest party in the 2017 Goa Assembly election with 17 MLAs, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with just 13 seats outplayed the former to form the government and also welcomed Congress defectors into the party fold. Now in 2022, the Congress with 11 seats is on the brink of collapse as its MLAs are keen to join the saffron party.
Recently, the Congress party in Goa suspected that two-thirds of its members would join the BJP, repeating the history of 2019 when 10 Congress MLAs had joined the BJP. It tried to upset the plan of the rebels by filing disqualification petitions against Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo and Margao MLA Digambar Kamat, alleging both were involved in anti-party activities.
On July 10, 2022, the Congress claimed that the BJP was trying for a two-thirds split in the Congress. With 11 MLAs, a minimum 8 MLAs had to leave the party.
The BJP was trying for a two-third split in the Congress, so a minimum 8 MLAs had to leave the party, Congress Goa desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao had said attacking the BJP for allegedly offering money to the MLAs.
Goa Congress former chief Girish Chodankar also targeted the BJP saying its industrialist friends, mine owners and coal mafias were offering Rs 30 to Rs 40 crores to Congress MLAs to defect.
The Congress has removed Michael Lobo as Leader of Opposition alleging he is the one who hatched the conspiracy, along with former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, by hobnobbing with the BJP to split the Congress.
Sources said that this political drama has been temporarily defused but the MLAs who have made up their minds may shift to the BJP anytime in the future.
Every time an MLA defected to the party, they have been telling the voters that they took the step for the development of the constituency. However, the people who have started to protest against such moves of the politicians have rejected it, saying they defect only for personal benefit, be it to save themselves from cases filed against them or for power, said analysts.
We are all together. I have told Dinesh Gundu Rao and GPCC President Amit Patkar that whatever is happening after I got elected as MLA and CLP leader the number of cases filed against me, I said I wont be able to do justice to the post (CLP). I had told them to give the CLP post to any other MLA among us, Michael Lobo, against whom cases have been filed in recent times, said.
Lobo, a former BJP leader, had joined the Congress ahead of the 2022 state assembly polls, while Digambar Kamat is also a former leader of the BJP.
According to Dinesh Gundu Rao, the BJPs mission is to finish the Opposition in the country.

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