Firmly in saddle at the Centre, the BJP appears to be keen on securing a majority of its own in Goa. A third of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant's Cabinet already consists of ex-Congressmen, there are uncomfirmed rumours now of two more Congress MLAs defecting. 

BJP’s alliance partner the Goa Forward has dismissed the development as a pressure tactic by the Congress, which the regional party’s president Vijai Sardesai has claimed is an attempt by the Congress to pressurise him to engage wit ..