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*** Digambar Kamat asked to prove majority in Goa Assembly (The Times of India) PANAJI: Goa Governor S C Jamir has asked Chief Minister Digamber Kamat to hold a floor test on Monday to prove the majority of his government in the Assembly. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa_CM_Kamat_asked_to_prove_majority/articleshow/2241012.cms *** Goa crisis: BJP leaders meet President Patil (NDTV) The Goa government crisis has turned out to be new President Pratibha Patil's first brush with politics after taking over the high office. In New Delhi, BJP leaders met President Patil and paraded 20 MLAs supporting it. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070020621 *** Cong meet shuts out Andhra, Goa (The Telegraph) New Delhi, July 28: A late evening meeting of the Congress Working Committee ” the partys highest policy-making body ” was in a congratulatory mood and avoided any discussion on the police firing in Andhra Pradesh and the imminent loss of government in Goa. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070729/asp/nation/story_8120987.asp *** Goa ˜mummy taps Patil (The Telegraph) New Delhi, July 28: The problem was not Pratibha Patil but the Congress and a "woman leader bent on ruining the party in Goa". http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070729/asp/nation/story_8120585.asp *** Goa MLAs taken to Pratibha (The Hindu) NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh led 20 MLAs of the recently formed Goa Democratic Alliance to meet President Pratibha Patil here on Saturday to demand that a "floor test" to determine the fate of the Kamat ... http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/29/stories/2007072960881200.htm *** Goa Governor asks CM to prove majority, BJP calls on President (Outlook India) Goa Governor S C Jamir today asked Chief Minister Digamber Kamat to prove majority in the assembly on Monday even as the opposition BP paraded 20 MLAs before President Pratibha Patil, claiming it had their support to form the next government in the state. http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=491613 *** Congress-led Goa Government had a fragile majority: Pranab (ANI via Yahoo! India News) By Pankaj Chaudhary Thimpu/New Delhi, July 28 (ANI): Commenting on the political situtation in Goa, where Congress-led Government has been reduced to minority and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has staked claim to form government, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that in such a "fragile" majority "uncertainty prevails". Mukherjee, who is in Bhutan to ... http://in.news.yahoo.com/070728/139/6iqpy.html *** BJP's Goa leadership submits memorandum to President Patil, demands right to form government (ANI via Yahoo! India News) New Delhi, July 28 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh today led leaders of the party's Goa unit to Rashtrapati Bhavan, and submitted a memorandum of protest to President Pratibha Patil over the emerging political developments in the coastal state. Emerging from the meeting, Singh told mediapersons in the forecourt of the presidential complex that the Goa unit of the BJP ... http://in.news.yahoo.com/070728/139/6iqrh.html *** BJP stakes claim to form government in Goa (ANI via Yahoo! India News) BJP stakes claim to form government in Goa http://in.news.yahoo.com/070728/139/6iqul.html *** Let Parrikar prove majority in Goa, BJP tells president (Lead) (Calcutta News) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday paraded 20 MLAs before President Pratiba Patil to prove that it had majority in the Goa assembly even as state Governor S.C. Jamir directed Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to go for a vote of confidence on Monday. http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/268859 Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php
