NCP MLA to withdraw disqualification application

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Panaji, Nov 3 NCP MLA Fransisco Pacheco today moved an application seeking to withdraw his disqualification petition against Congress legislators Churchill Alemao and Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco.

Pacheco told PTI that he has submitted a letter to Goa assembly speaker Pratapsingh Rane seeking to withdraw the petition he filed around a-year-and-a-half ago.

Alemao is public works department minister in Digamber Kamat cabinet, while Lourenco is chairing state-owned Kadamba Transport Corporation Limited (KTCL).

Pacheco, NCP legislator and state tourism minister, had filed disqualification petition against the two after they merged their erstwhile Save Goa Front (SGF) with the Congress in the last week of January, 2008, terming the move as illegal.

The disqualification was sought under provisions of article 191(2) read with 10th schedule of the Constitution relating to defection.

- (Agencies)

Nov 04, 2009