{"id":310638,"date":"2019-03-18T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310638"},"modified":"2019-03-18T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:35:19","slug":"goa-congress-mlas-meet-governor-mridula-sinha-to-stake-claim-to-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/goa-congress-mlas-meet-governor-mridula-sinha-to-stake-claim-to-form-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa: Congress MLAs meet Governor Mridula Sinha to stake claim to form government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310639 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/goa-congress-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-congress-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-congress-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-congress-696x396.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-congress-738x420.jpg 738w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-congress.jpg 882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A delegation of Goa Congress on Monday met Governor Mridula Sinha at the Raj Bhavan to stake claim to form the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came a day after Chief Minister\u00a0Manohar Parrikar\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the 14 Congress MLAs, led by Leader of the Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar went to Raj Bhawan and handed over a letter to Mridula Sinha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe met the Governor &amp; staked claim to form a government as we are the single largest party in the state. We have 14 MLAs and we should be given the chance to form the government. We have told that we will prove majority @CKavalekar @INCIndia @INCGoa,\u201d Chandrakant Kavlekar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress on Saturday wrote to Governor Sinha and staked claim to form the government in Goa. Chandrakant Kavlekar urged the governor to dismiss the BJP-led coalition regime as it is in a minority and its numbers may \u201cdwindle\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress is currently the single largest party in Goa with 14 MLAs while the BJP has 12 in the 40-member Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of Goa Congress on Monday met Governor Mridula Sinha at the Raj Bhavan to stake claim to form the government. This came a day after Chief Minister\u00a0Manohar Parrikar\u2019s death. All the 14 Congress MLAs, led by Leader of the Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar went to Raj Bhawan and handed over a letter to Mridula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2922,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[236,2025,11157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310647,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310638\/revisions\/310647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}