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Goa: Congress moves five MLAs to undisclosed location ahead of Assembly session as five others go incommunicado
•The 'rebel' MLAs - Michael Lobo, Digambar Kamat, Kedar Naik, Rajesh Faldesai and Delialah Lobo - were available for comments, but sources in the BJP claimed that the legislators were in touch with them
Explained: The crisis in the Goa Congress that led to the sacking of Michael Lobo as Leader of Opposition
Fp Explainers •The Congress is witnessing a mutiny with six of its 11 MLAs incommunicado. The party alleges that some of its senior leaders in the Goa unit are collaborating with the BJP to engineer defections
Goa Congress immediately removes Michael Lobo as Leader of Opposition amid talks of defections
Fp Staff •AICC Goa in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao accused former CM Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo of working in total coordination with BJP. He claimed that BJP wants to finish Opposition in the state
Goa Polls 2022: Michael Lobo flexes muscles at beach as Congress candidates take oath to not switch sides
Cnnnews18 •Goa elections 2022: In 2017, Congress had emerged as the single largest party in Goa and Manipur as the two states yielded a fractured verdict. However, it failed to form the government.
Michael Lobo resigns as Goa minister, quits BJP ahead of Assembly polls
•Michael Lobo claimed that people were unhappy with the ruling BJP in Goa
Karan Johar's Dharma Productions asked to apologise by Goa govt for allegedly littering beach during shoot
Trendingdesk •Dharma Productions allegedly disposed off PPEs and other unsegregated garbage on a Goa beach during a shoot last week.
No oil spillage from 3000-tonne unmanned tanker off Goan coast carrying naphtha, says state govt; expert team constituted ‘to plan remedial action’
•The Goa government on Saturday said they have sought the help of experts from Pune and Mumbai to control any possible tragedy emerging due to a tanker carrying naphtha getting grounded off the Goa coast.
Four new ministers inducted into Goa cabinet, including ex-deputy Speaker Michael Lobo and three Congress defectors
Fp Staff •On Friday, the Goa chief minister had asked three legislators from the coalition partner, Goa Forward Party, and an independent legislator, Rohan Khaunte, to step down. Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai, Vinod Palienkar and Jayesh Salgaocar are the ministers from the Goa Forward Party(GFP), who were asked to resign.
Ahead of Goa cabinet reshuffle, CM Pramod Sawant drops four ministers; ex-deputy Speaker Michael Lobo likely to be inducted
•According to the notification, the four Goa ministers who were dropped from the state cabinet are – Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai, Water Resources Minister Vinod Palyekar, Rural Development Minister Jayesh Salgaonkar (all GFP MLAs) and Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte (Independent).
Daily Bulletin: SC orders status quo over Karnataka MLAs case; Goa cabinet reshuffle likely today; day's top stories
Fp Staff •The top court said an incidental question that would arise in the Karnataka rebel MLAs resignations is the kind and extent of the directions that should be issued by a constitutional court to another constitutional functionary, which in the present case happens to be the Speaker of the Assembly.