Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, May 14: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Goa legislator Fransisco Micky Pacheco on Saturday May 14 revived his disqualification petition against a Congress minister and a legislator under anti-defection law.

Pacheco, in an application moved before the Speaker of Legislative Assembly on Friday, has said that the recent notification by Election Commission of India has clarified that Save Goa Front, a party which both the legislators claims to have merged with Congress, still exists.

On April 1, 2011, Joint Electoral Officer of Goa has clearly notified that Save Goa Front as a recognized party having Aeroplane as its reserved symbol.

Pacheco has demanded that Public Works department minister Churchill Alemao and legislator Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, both of whom had joined Congress party in the year 2008, be disqualified under tenth schedule to the Constitution of India.

“Despite the claim of the respondents (Alemao and Lourenco) that the Save Goa Front had merged with the Indian National Congress, the Save Goa Front was very much alive, and continued to be a recognized political party,” Pacheco has said in his letter to the speaker.

He has also demanded that 'pending hearing and final disposal of the petition, Speaker may restrain the respondents from participating or voting in the Goa legislative assembly.'

Pacheco, a former tourism minister, had filed disqualification petition against duo in October 2008 which is being heard by the Speaker.

Alemao, who had left congress during 2006 state legislative assembly polls had floated Save Goa Front party. He entered the Congress party again claiming that he has merged his outfit with the Sonia Gandhi led party.