From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
 
Panaji, Apr 6: The political crisis again embroiled Goa with state cabinet meeting called to discuss the possibility of dissolving the house resulting into fiasco.
 
Government sources confirmed that chief minister Digamber Kamat called for an emergency cabinet meeting this morning after group of seven non-congress legislators re-launched their pressure tactics.

 
The cabinet meeting which was attended by majority ministers, however, sidelined the dissolution issue and instead discussed the sports policy before winding up.
 
The group of seven legislators including three NCP, two Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, a United Goans democratic party (UGDP) and an Independent, had held a crucial meeting in Mumbai on Monday evening pressurising the government to meet their long standing demands of change in certain portfolios.
 
As the Group Seven met in Mumbai, back in Goa, chief Minister called for an emergency meeting with word being spread through congress sources that the cabinet might discuss the dissolution.
 
Kamat’s scheduled meeting with Governor S S Siddhu after the cabinet also fuelled speculations of chief minister wanting to dissolve the house to avoid further precipitation of political crisis.
 
Even as initial reports suggested that group seven will give a miss to cabinet meeting, all the seven legislators, including five ministers, arrived and attended the meeting at Porvorim secretariate which began at 10 a.m.
 
“The meeting was supposed to discuss dissolution but since they came down, we did not discuss the issue,” Churchill Alemao, Congress minister, told media persons after the cabinet.
 
Kamat refused to talk and instead avoided media after the cabinet and drove to Raj Bhavan to attend a meeting, which was supposed to discuss airport expansion plan.
 
NCP legislature wing spokesman Jose Philip D’Souza claimed that the demands of group seven still remains unfulfilled and high commands of NCP and Congress will meet in Delhi to thrash them out.
 
The mood amongst the rebel legislators seemed to be savoury as except D’Souza and MGP’s Ramakrishna Dhavlikar, rest avoided speaking to the media.
 
“We are not demanding anything. Whatever points we are raising is for smoothening of administration and good governance in the state,” Dhavlikar said.
 
He flatly refused to explained the contentious points.
 
This is for the third time in last one month that Group seven has attempted to strike unsuccessfully. Little before the budget assembly session, the group had shocked the government by warning that chief minister should not consider their support for finance bill.
 
The crisis was blown over after NCP leader Praful Patel and Congress leader B Hariprasad intervened in the matter.