01/06/2014 … Stating that unattached mla should not be given a chance to join another political party gpcc president john Fernandes on Tuesday urged the need for a change in the tenth schedule legislation which allowed an mla to remain unattached instead of going for a bye election if a concerned mla was throw out of his party …
Speaking to goanreporter over the issue of why the state congress party had not taken any action on its mla’s specially on its mla’s mauvin godinho who had done anti party activities during the recent held lok Sabha elections and also had shown signs of moving out of the congress party gpcc president john Fernandes said that there were certain mla’s within the party who wanted to remain unattached instead of resigning from the party and going for a bye election missing using the provision of the tenth schedule
Fernandes said that there were certain mla’s within his party who were trying to misuse the provisions of the tenth schedule constitution of anti defection law and therefore he felt that some of the provisions in the law had to be reviewed..
