The Center and Goa government, however, assured the high court that no coercive action will be taken against the petitioner Caetano R Silva, an MLA of Goa Vikas Party which claims to support the state's ruling BJP party from outside.
Justice V K Jain thereafter listed the matter on December 2.
Silva has in his plea contended he has never applied for Portuguese citizenship but was held to be a national of that country merely on the basis of a letter received from Indian Embassy there that his birth has allegedly been registered there in 2010.