PANJIM, May 10 -- Goa Assembly Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar on Thursday dismissed the disqualification petition filed against erstwhile Congress MLAs Michael Lobo and Digambar Kamat by Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Amit Patkar.

This is the first of the four disqualification petitions disposed of by the Speaker after 22 months.

In his disqualification petition, Patkar had sought disqualification of then Leader of the Opposition Michael Lobo and Margao MLA Digambar Kamat in July 2022, for voluntarily giving up membership of the Congress party by not attending the meetings of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) and becoming incommunicado with

the leaders of the Congress party.

Patkar stated that the duo since long had been ...