Notice to Chodankar on plea to disqualify 10 Cong-turned-BJP MLAs

Goa Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar on Saturday issued tice to Congress' state chief Girish Chodankar in connection with disqualification petition filed by him against ten MLAs who h switched sides to BJP.

tice, issued to Chodankar by Legislature Secretary Namrata Ulman, stated that hearing on matter is fixed for February 13 in speaker's chamber in Assembly complex in Porvorim. He h filed petition under Tenth schedule of Constitution in August last year demanding that all 10 MLAs, including current deputy chief minister Chandrakant Kavlekar, be disqualified as legislators for "defecting to ar party".

ten MLAs h switched over from Congress to BJP in July last year, giving ruling party a majority of its own (27 seats) in 40-member House. MLAs are Kavlekar, Atanasio Monserratte, Jeniffer Monserratte, Isidore Fernandes, Francis Silveira, Philip Nery Rodrigues, Cleofacio Dias, Wilfred D'Sa, Antonio Fernandes and Nilkant Halarnkar.

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