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Panaji: NCP Demands Mickky in Cabinet

  •   Sun, Dec 19 2010 10:14:13 AM

Panaji, Dec 19 (TOI): The crisis in the Congress-NCP alliance deepened further on Saturday with the observer deputed by the NCP high command, Prakash Binsale, submitting a letter to chief minister Digambar Kamat that Benaulim MLA Francisco 'Mickky' Pacheco be inducted into the state cabinet by dropping one or both the ministers who are in the news-—revenue minister Jose Philip D'Souza and tourism minister Nilkant Halarnkar. With D'Souza and Halarnkar refusing to resign, the NCP high command deputed the party's secretary in charge of the Goa desk and its spokesman Binsale to Goa on Saturday to resolve the crisis dogging the party for the last three days.

The CM confirmed having received the letter, but said he would take it up with the Congress high command. "Yes I have received the letter," said Kamat. Asked who will be dropped, he said, "I will discuss the issue with my high mat stopped at Altinho. He (Kamat) had earlier planned to travel to Kala Academy directly from Margao," the source added. Sources in the Congress said the CM would be busy with the Liberation Day celebrations and would not be able to discuss the issue with the high command till Monday. The Congress discussed the issue threadbare and the mood in the party was of confrontation with its alliance partner. command and then decide accordingly." About the contents of the letter, Kamat said, "I had no time to go through it." Binsale, who was accompanied by NCP state unit president Surendra Sirsat, submitted the letter at the official residence of the CM in Altinho, Panaji, minutes before Kamat left for the golden jubilee celebrations at Kala Academy.

In fact, there was no discussion on the issue as the CM was in a hurry to leave for the function, a source said. "It was only at Binsale's request that Kamat stopped at Altinho. He (Kamat) had earlier planned to travel to Kala Academy directly from Margao," the source added. Sources in the Congress said the CM would be busy with the Liberation Day celebrations and would not be able to discuss the issue with the high command till Monday. The Congress discussed the issue threadbare and the mood in the party was of confrontation with its alliance partner.

  

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  • Pooja, Goa

    Sun, Dec 19 2010

    NCP has done the right thing. These two ministers betrayed the party without taking permission from their party. They have ganged up to suppress Micky and everybody now knows who were behind Micky's downfall. However he has the public support. Nadia's case of suicide is the personal problem and no one knows the truth also no one should interfere in his personal life. This time the corrupt congress ministers who had the meeting with the 2 NCP ministers will loose the coming elections as every knows their credentials.

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