Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee seems to have finally decided to act against the eight erring MLAs who joined the BJP in September by filing a disqualification petition against them.
Sources in the State secretariat told Goemkarponn said that on Friday, the disqualification petition was filed before Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar.
“The contents of the petition are not yet known, but the petition has been filed,” highly placed sources said.
It is still unknown whether the petition is filed by the GPCC or someone else.
Repeated calls to the Speaker, Tawadkar went unanswered.
The Congress had said it was going to file a disqualification petition against the eight MLAs who recently crossed over to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Congress’ strength in the Goa Legislative Assembly dwindled to three after the exit of eight of its 11 legislators in September. State Congress chief Amit Patkar he had told that the party had received the documents required for filing a disqualification petition from the Assembly Speaker’s office.
Former advocate general and current Congress MLA Carlose Alvares Ferreira would be drafting the petition and it would be filed soon, Patkar added.
