PANJIM, Feb. 16 -- Even as the BJP is trying hard to convince alliance partner MGP not to contest the Shiroda and Mandrem bypolls, another coalition partner GFP seems to have dropped a bomb at Mapusa.
Sardesai emerging from D'Souza's house after paying homage to the late Dy Chief Minister said that he was willing to back the latter's son Joshua to take forward the departed leader's legacy.
However, Sardesai was not very clear whether he would back Joshua on a GFP ticket or on the BJP, the party which his father embraced for 17 years.
The development and the timing of the statement assume significance as BJP is at the point of taking a decision between dissolution of the Assembly or bypolls.
The BJP, for now, is trying to play down Sarde...