Goa's acting assembly speaker Michael Lobo has issued a notice to Health Minister and BJP MLA Vishwajit Rane in connection with a disqualification petition filed against him.
Lobo has also issued a notice to the petitioner, Independent MLA Prasad Gaonkar.
The speaker has asked both of them to appear before him on May 2, Gaonkar said.
The Independent MLA had filed the disqualification petition before the then Speaker Pramod Sawant against Rane, who resigned as a member of the assembly soon after getting elected in 2017 and then joined the BJP.
Rane, elected on a Congress ticket from Valpoi, had resigned from assembly membership minutes after taking oath and later also quit the party.
He then joined the BJP and was inducted into the Cabinet. Rane entered the assembly after winning from the Valpoi seat in a bypoll in August 2017.
"The speaker has issued a notice to me and Rane last week, asking us to appear before him on May 2 in connection with the disqualification petition," Gaonkar told PTI.
Gaonkar is now supporting the BJP-led government headed by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
The Independent legislator had filed the petition in August 2017, seeking Rane's disqualification from the House.
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