Cong removes Michael Lobo from post of Leader of Opposition in Goa Assembly

Goa Congress leader Michael Lobo and former CM Digamber Kamat were hatching conspiracy against party by hobnobbing with BJP; Cong to act against them, says Congress Goa in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao

In a fresh trouble for the opposition Congress in Goa, the party on Sunday said five of its 11 MLAs in the state have gone "incommunicado", and accused two of these legislators - Michael Lobo and former chief minister Digambar Kamat - of "conspiring" and "hobnobbing with the ruling BJP to engineer a split" in the grand old party's legislative wing.

The party also removed Lobo from the post of Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, which has 40 members.

The announcement about the legislators going incommunicado and the sacking of Lobo from the post was made by the party's Goa