Panaji: A group of eight congress-turned-BJP MLAs from Goa will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Monday, a senior official said.
A senior BJP official said that all the eight MLAs led by chief minister Pramod Sawant and BJP Goa State President Sadanand Shet Tanavade will be meeting Prime Minister on Monday morning.
The group will leave for Delhi tonight in a fight from Goa. Two of the MLAs – Michael Lobo and Digambar Kamat who are currently out of station would be joining them in the national capital, he said.
Eight Congress MLAs – Digambar Kamat, Michael Lobo, Delilah Lobo, Kedar Naik, Rajesh Phaldesai, Sankalp Amonkar, Rudolf Fernandes and Aleixo Sequeira – had joined BJP after merging the Congress Legislative Party (CLP).
