As expected Parrikar the new CM of Goa has won the trust vote. Digivijay singh the senior congress leader earlier said that Parrikar will lose the trust vote.
12.22pm: BJP wins trust vote in the Goa assembly with the support of 23 MLAs. NCP MLA also supports them.
12.00pm: Congress’ Ravi Naik walks to the well of the house to take oath, asks Parrikar with an indication of the hand whether everything is fine.
Sudin Dhavalikar of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) takes oath. Goa Forward’s Vijai Sardesai is also sworn in.
11.30am: Dayanand Sopte of the Congress party who registered a record win against Laxmikant Parsekar in Mandrem constituency sworn in first.
11.20am: Floor test to begin after MLAs are sworn in.
11.00am: After Amarinder Singh’s swearing in as the chief minister of Punjab, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi once again raises allegations that the BJP wrested control in Manipur and Goa using money.
10.45am: Another Congress leader, Pratap Singh Rane, announces that the party will prove majority in the floor test. “We have the people with us,” he says.
10.30am: “The Congress has over-invested in Luizinho Faleiro. The defeat of Congress in Goa is because of him,” says Vijai Sardesai of the Goa Forward Party, which pledged support to the BJP. He goes on to say: “The Congress can never take any decision as the infighting between them is immense. It is filled with grandfathers who are ex-chief ministers.
10.00am: “We are confident and we will prove the numbers,” says Vishwajit Rane of the Congress party, who has arrived at the state assembly.
9.45am: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has told NDTV: “We will defeat the motion.”
9.32am: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar reaches state assembly.
