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Top Goa Congress leader has said Bharat Jodo Yatra will fail Michael Lobo said that it will fail due to infighting within Congress He said this after joining BJP in Goa

Congress has managed to avert a major crisis in its Goa unit for now The party managed to avert a major split into the party Sending positive signals, 10 out of 11 Goa Congress MLAs attended a crucial party meet

Michael Lobo was removed by Congress as Goa LoP for conspiring with BJP to engineer defection in the party Lobo denied any "hobnobbing" with the ruling BJP and asserted that he is still with the grand old party Lobo said, "...I think somebody wants to become leader of the opposition and that`s why they are doing it"

Former Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar made an explosive claim that party MLAs have been offered Rs 40 crore to join the BJP.

Congress is concerned over the BJP conspiring to engineer defection in the party as five party MLAs go incommunicado Sonia Gandhi has asked party MP Mukul Wasnik to rush to the coastal state to oversee the latest political developments Congress also sacked Michael Lobo as the Leader of Opposition in the Goa Assembly for alleged conspiracy to engineer defections

"A conspiracy was hatched by some of our own leaders with the BJP to see that the Congress party in Goa is weakened and to engineer defections. This conspiracy was led by 2 of our own leaders LoP Michael Lobo and Digambar Kamat," Dinesh Gundu Rao said.

Goa Minister Michael Lobo on Saturday said that the Indian Penal Code should be amended by the Parliament to provide for `public hangings as punishment for the perpetrators of rape and murder`

BJP leader Michael Lobo on Saturday resigned from the post of Deputy Speaker amid reports that he will be inducted as minister in the reshuffled cabinet.

Manohar Parrikar died on Sunday (March 17) at his residence near here after battling pancreatic cancer for over a year.

Deputy Speaker Goa Assembly Michael Lobo on Friday raised the issue of unemployment in the state. 

BJP MLA Michael Lobo made these remarks in the Goa Assembly on Wednesday.

On Sunday, Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital had denied all rumours about Parrikar's health and said that he was responding well to the treatment.

The Opinion Poll of 1967, a historic referendum in Goa, helped the former Portuguese colony retain its own unique identity.

Seven Catholic MLAs of the BJP on Sunday made a public plea to regional parties and Independent legislators to support the party in government formation in Goa.