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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, FEB. 3. A high-level delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party today met the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, to seek his intervention to get the dismissed Manohar Parrikar Government in Goa reinstated. The party also asked for the recall of the Governor of Goa, S.C. Jamir, for what it described as his "unconstitutional and partisan" action. Separately, the BJP has decided to approach the courts after discussing the issue thoroughly with legal experts. Summoned to Delhi by the party president, L.K. Advani, all the 16 MLAs of the BJP and the dismissed Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar, arrived here and accompanied the delegation to the President, led by the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Memorandum submitted
The three-page memorandum submitted to the President charged the Governor with mounting an "unprecedented assault on Indian democracy" by dismissing the Parrikar Government. The party claimed that the Chief Minister had proved his majority on the floor of the House — a point that is hotly contested by the Congress, which has criticised the Speaker for violating all norms by physically evicting from the House one Independent MLA just before the voting on the motion seeking confidence. The BJP has alleged that sending Mr. Jamir to Goa as the Governor was part of a "plot" hatched by the Congress high command here to destabilise the duly elected Government in the State. The BJP told the President that the Governor had no power to annul the ruling of the Speaker. The court was the only forum before which an appeal against the Speaker's ruling could be made. Further, the BJP delegation said that by swearing-in a Congress Government immediately after dismissing a BJP-led Government the Governor had demonstrated his "partisan and politically motivated approach."
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