Ten out of the total 11 Congress MLAs in Goa attended a meeting chaired by senior leader Mukul Wasnik here as the party managed to avert a split in its fold for the time being.
Except former chief minister Digambar Kamat, all the other Congress MLAs, including Michael Lobo, were on Monday night present in the meeting which went on for over two hours at the state party headquarters.
Congress Goa desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao and state party president Amit Patkar were also present during the meeting. Wasnik claimed some people with “bad intentions” were trying to create a rift in the Goa Congress, but the legislators scuttled it by showing they are united.
He said during the meeting, discussions were held with the MLAs on how to work aggressively in the House and strengthen the party in the coastal state. On Sunday, five Congress MLAs, including Kamat and Lobo, went incommunicado. They, however, attended the Goa Assembly proceedings on the first day of its monsoon session on Monday and claimed there was nothing wrong and that they were with the party.