Congress mentioned Sonia Gandhi has requested Mukul Wasnik to hurry to Goa. (FILE)
New Delhi:
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday requested senior get together chief Mukul Wasnik to hurry to Goa to “oversee newest political developments” within the state.
The Congress has accused two of those legislators – Michael Lobo and former chief minister Digambar Kamat – of “conspiring” and “hobnobbing” with the ruling BJP to engineer a cut up within the grand outdated get together’s legislative wing.
In a late night time tweet, AICC common secretary, group, KC Venugopal, mentioned, “Congress President has requested Shri @MukulWasnik, MP to hurry to Goa to supervise newest political developments within the state.”
Hon’ble Congress President has requested Shri @MukulWasnik, MP to hurry to Goa to supervise newest political developments within the state.
— Okay C Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) July 10, 2022
The get together additionally eliminated Mr Lobo from the put up of Chief of Opposition within the state Meeting, which has 40 members.
The announcement in regards to the legislators going incommunicado and the sacking of Mr Lobo from the put up was made by the get together’s Goa desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao late Sunday night, on the eve of the meeting session.
The event comes amid hypothesis that some Congress MLAs could cross over to the BJP. Precisely three years in the past on this present day, a bunch of 10 MLAs from the Congress had left the get together and converted to the BJP.
The event additionally comes shut on the heels of the political turmoil in neighbouring Maharashtra, the place the ruling Shiv Sena cut up following a insurrection by senior chief Eknath Shinde, who grew to become the Chief Minister after Uddhav Thackeray resigned from the highest put up within the final week of June.
Mr Shinde and his supporting MLAs had gone “incommunicado” on June 20-21 earlier than transferring to Surat after which to Guwahati.
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