{"id":310849,"date":"2019-03-27T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T11:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310849"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T11:12:33","slug":"goa-deputy-cm-sudin-dhavalikar-dropped-from-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/goa-deputy-cm-sudin-dhavalikar-dropped-from-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa Deputy CM Sudin Dhavalikar dropped from Cabinet"},"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-310850 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sudin-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sudin-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sudin.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Goa Deputy Chief Minister and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) leader Sudin Dhavalikar had been dropped from the cabinet hours after two MGP MLAs joined the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said Dhavalikar was dropped from the cabinet because of his anti-government activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a communication addressed to Goa Governor Mridula Sinha, Sawant informed her about dropping Dhavalikar from the cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP\u2019s strength in the 40-member state Assembly has increased to 14 after the two MGP MLAs Manohar Ajgaonkar and Deepak Pauskar joined BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dhavalikar, the third MGP MLA, however, did not sign the letter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision on filling up the vacant seat will be taken very soon,\u201d said Sawant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dhavalikar was allotted portfolios of Transport and Public Works which will be now looked after by CM Pramod Sawant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Deputy Chief Minister and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) leader Sudin Dhavalikar had been dropped from the cabinet hours after two MGP MLAs joined the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said Dhavalikar was dropped from the cabinet because of his anti-government activity. In a communication addressed to Goa Governor Mridula Sinha, Sawant informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2922,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[453,11171,11158,11204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310849"}],"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=310849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310851,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310849\/revisions\/310851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}