ARES - Daijiworld Media Network Goa

Panaji, Apr 3:  Digamber Kamat led goa government seems to be heading for another `testing time' of its tenure with `everything is not well within the formation'.
 
While two ministers – congress and NCP each – have locked horns on developmental issue, an influential united goans democratic party (UGDP) unattached legislator Atanasio Monserratte is lobbying hard for ministerial berth.
 
Tripling the trouble, Congress legislator Pandurang Madkaikar, sacked from the cabinet, has decided to approach congress president Sonia Gandhi with the demand to reinstate his ministerial position.
 
All these factors will be pushing nine month old Digamber Kamat government towards another crisis. This would be the third crisis faced by the chief minister, with two crisis successfully blown over by the high command.
 
"Either he remain in the government or I," is how tourism minister and NCP legislator Fransisco alias Mickky Pacheco warned publicly on Wednesday accusing congress minister Churchill Alemao of `acting anti-people.'
 
Both the ministers are at logger head over the developmental works in Benaulim constituency represented by Pacheco.
 
NCP had earlier demanded that public works department (PWD) portfolio be stripped off from Alemao.
 
Sharad Pawar-led party, which has formed a front of its own comprising three of its legislators, two maharashtrawadi gomantak party (MGP) legislators and an independent Vishwajeet Rane, has been pressing for stripping off PWD from Alemao.
 
"The high command (NCP) is with me. I will take my stand within two weeks," Pacheco said.
 
In yet another trouble, former town and country planning minister Monserratte, who was part of the last two toppling bids, has rushed to Delhi seeking ministerial berth.
 
Monserratte, who is lobbying hard to get the position, is camping in Delhi with the demand.
 
If Monserratte has to be accommodated, the congress will have to drop one of its minister, furthering the discontent amongst congress rank.
 
The party has already dropped its legislator Pandurang Madkaikar from the cabinet to pave way for induction of Ramakrishna Dhavalikar, a MGP legislator. The move had earned lot of ire for the chief minister then.
 
Madkaikar, who is flashing his schedule tribe status and swears by 12 per cent community, has dashed to the national capital today seeking congress president's intervention. The former minister, who is the lone ST representative in the congress camp, will lobby to regain the ministerial berth pushing chief minister further in the corner.
 
Goa, the 40 seat assembly, can swear in only 12 ministers. Currently, Goa cabinet comprises of two nationalist congress party (NCP), one Maharashtrawadi gomantak party, one independent legislator and eight congress legislators (including chief ministers)