Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo are already out of station and are anticipated to hitch the group in Delhi | File Pic
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and the BJP State president Sadanand Shet Tanavade will chaperone the eight MLAs who final week cut up from the Congress and ‘merged’ with the BJP at a gathering with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Monday morning.
Chatting with reporters on the Dabolim airport, Sawant knowledgeable that it was a routine go to to Delhi with the MLAs who have been new to the celebration.
“The MLAs are new to the celebration and we’re taking them to Delhi to get them familiarised. We have now taken an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dwelling Minister Amit Shah”, Sawant stated.
Earlier within the day, Sawant advised media that he and Tanavade would accompany the eight new entrants to Delhi for the particular goal of assembly Modi.
The chief minister stated, six of the eight MLAs will depart by a Sunday night time flight for the nationwide capital.
Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo are already out of station and are anticipated to hitch the group in Delhi, Sawant stated after attending a Rashtriya Sevak Sangh (RSS) assembly held yearly to coordinate with the celebration within the capital metropolis.
The chief minister nevertheless, didn’t elaborate on the aim of the assembly with Modi however the query of a Cupboard reshuffle, which normally is a corollary of a defection into the ruling celebration, is more likely to come up within the discussions.
The group of eight Congress MLAs — Aleixo Sequeira, Kedar Naik, Rajesh Phaldesai, Sankalp Amonkar, Rudolf Fernandes and Delilah Lobo — in addition to Kamat and Lobo, cut up and merged with the Congress on Wednesday night time.
The cut up and ‘merger’ was formally endorsed by Goa Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar on Thursday and the Legislature Secretary issued a bulletin stating that the sitting association had been modified to make the group a part of the BJP.
With the event, the energy of the Sawant-led coalition authorities within the 40 member Home has gone as much as 33 — 28 of the BJP, two of the MGP and three Independents.
It has additionally decimated the numbers within the Opposition benches to seven. Congress nonetheless continues to be the biggest within the block with a energy of three, adopted by Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) with two and one every of the Goa Ahead Celebration (GFP) and Revolutionary Goans Celebration (RGP).
In the meantime, Sawant stated, that whereas in Delhi they may even meet celebration president, J P Nadda.
“We’ll return to Goa day after tomorrow,” he stated and ducked questions on whether or not the problem of Cupboard reshuffle can be introduced up within the Delhi conferences.
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