Goa CM Manohar Parrikar faces floor test today

March 16, 2017 09:10

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Goa, headed by chief minister Manohar Parrikar, will face a crucial floor test today.

Parrikar, whose party has 13 MLAs, had staked claim to form the government on Sunday mustering the support of the Goa Forward Party and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party besides two independents, which together took the tally of the combine to 21.

Another independent MLA had extended his support to the coalition on Tuesday, raising its number to 22.

After being sworn-in as the Chief Minister, Parrikar exuded confidence that his government would be stable and run the full five year term.

"Let everyone be very clear that this government will last for its full tenure," he said.

"I agree the mandate is fractured. But if every fraction of the fractured mandate comes together, we will become 22. This is bringing together post-election coalition and the lead has been taken by regional parties, not me," he said.

However, the Congress who won 17 seats had called the swearing-in of Parrikar as the chief minister of Goa is a big scam

"This swearing-in ceremony of Manohar Parrikar as the chief minister of Goa is a big scam and the BJP has resorted to unfair means. Throughout Goa people are protesting as to why the saffron party did such a low act to come to power, and why is the media not showing all this?," Congress leader Om Prakash Mishra said.

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