AMN / PANAJI
Congress MLAs in Goa Tuesday met Governor Mridula Sinha and requested her to call a one-day assembly session asking the ruling BJP-led coalition government to prove its majority.
Speaking to reporters after meeting the governor, leader of the opposition and Congress leader Chandrakant Kavlekar said that if the ruling government fails to prove majority, Congress is ready to prove its majority as the single largest party in the Goa assembly.
Mr Kavlekar added that Congress MLAs requested the governor to not dissolve the assembly as assembly elections within one and half years is not acceptable. He said that the governor has informed that she will consider the issue in the next three-four days.
Congress has been claiming that chief minister Manohar Parrikar’s prolonged illness has paralyzed governance in Goa. Mr Parrikar is currently undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
Currently, the 40-member Goa assembly has 16 Congress MLAs; 14 BJP MLAs; three MLAs each of MGP and GFP; one MLA from Nationalist Congress Party; and three independents.