Panaji, Apr 7(IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa has denied media reports which suggested that former Chief Minister and Congress MLA Digambar Kamat was likely to join the ruling party.

"The BJP has a majority government of 25 members. There is nothing to these rumours," Goa BJP spokesperson Sharmad Pai Raiturkar told reporters here.

"They are trying to re-boil a curry which has gone stale. There is no truth to this," he added.

Kamat was a former BJP legislator and a close aide of former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, before he quit the party to join the Congress in 2005. He was appointed Chief Minister of a Congress-led coalition in 2007.

Speculation has been rife about Kamat's political future in the Congress, after he was not considered for the post of Leader of Opposition soon after the party lost the February 14 polls.

He was appointed as a permanent invitee to the Congress Working Committee instead on March 31.