{"id":234991,"date":"2022-09-14T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=234991"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:18:00","slug":"8-goa-congress-mlas-likely-to-join-bjp-today-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/8-goa-congress-mlas-likely-to-join-bjp-today-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Goa Congress MLAs Likely To Join BJP Today: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"8 Goa Congress MLAs Likely To Join BJP Today: Sources\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"8 Goa Congress MLAs Likely To Join BJP Today: Sources\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"8 Goa Congress MLAs Likely To Join BJP Today: Sources\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-09\/b6kvvigg_goa-congress-mlas_650x400_14_September_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-09-14T11:31:31+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=654211&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/14092022_n_GoaCongressMLAs_171165_694700_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T6M09S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-09\/b6kvvigg_goa-congress-mlas_650x400_14_September_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=654211&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Congress MLAs with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Panaji: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Barely two months after the Congress looked to have staved off a defection bid, eight of its 11 MLAs led by top leaders Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo will join the ruling BJP later today, sources said. They met the Vidhan Sabha Speaker, besides Chief Minister Pramod\u00a0Sawant. If eight MLAs break away as a group \u2014 two thirds of the party strength, that is \u2014\u00a0they can avoid disqualification under the anti-defection law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the MLAs&#8217; meeting with the Speaker sparked speculations as the assembly is not in session.\u00a0State BJP chief\u00a0Sadanand Shet Tanavade then told news agency PTI that they are joining the party.<\/p>\n<p>Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo were at the centre of the switchover speculation in July, and the Congress had even asked the speaker to disqualify them under the anti-defection law.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kamat,\u00a0a former chief minister, had said he was &#8220;shocked and stunned&#8221; at the allegations of leading a division. Even Michael Lobo, whom\u00a0the Congress removed as Leader of Opposition, had claimed there was &#8220;no talk of any division&#8221;.\u00a0Mr Lobo had switched from the BJP to Congress just before the elections earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress was singed in a similar fashion in 2019, when two-thirds of its assembly strength \u2014 10 of 15 MLAs \u2014 defected to the BJP, which is why\u00a0the party this year made its candidates take a loyalty vow.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the latest defection wasn&#8217;t entirely unexpected, even though\u00a0in July the Congress managed to keep at least seven\u00a0of its MLAs with it. There was no final move by the four others, who included \u2014 besides\u00a0Mr Lobo and Mr Kamat \u2014\u00a0 Kedar Naik and Delilah Lobo, Mr Lobo&#8217;s wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senior leader Mukul Wasnik had been deputed by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to handle the crisis, and he appeared to have stopped it.<\/p>\n<p>Or not quite, going by\u00a0today&#8217;s developments.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reports of defection come when the Congress is holding a Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March), led by Rahul Gandhi, while the BJP has been taking jibes: &#8220;Unite your party first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/eight-goa-congress-mlas-to-join-bjp-says-state-party-chief-sadanand-tanavade-news-agency-pti-3342680\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Congress MLAs with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today. Panaji: Barely two months after the Congress looked to have staved off a defection bid, eight of its 11 MLAs led by top leaders Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo will join the ruling BJP later today, sources said. They met the Vidhan Sabha Speaker, besides Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[278434,244013,278433],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}