Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Saturday said he had asked the Alemao brothers, who resigned from the cabinet on Saturday afternoon, to wait for a while and discuss their grievance with the Congress High Command.
Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao had earlier said that he and his and his brother, Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao, had sent in their resignations from the cabinet this afternoon.
This followed disqualification of Churchill's daughter, Valanka, for the coming Goa Youth Congress elections by the Youth Congress's election authority.
"They had come to me in the afternoon. They were upset over disqualification of Valanka. They were thinking of resignation but I told them that issue should be taken up at the appropriate forum," Kamat told PTI over phone.
The Chief Minister said he was yet to receive written resignations. "They have spoken to the high command and have conveyed their sentiments," he added.
Churchill Alemao had alleged Valanka was disqualified from contesting on flimsy grounds, and Congress had done injustice to her.
She was disqualified for allegedly trying to influence the voters by misusing her father's position while canvassing for Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Committee polls scheduled for July 26 and 27.
Valanka, Churchill's younger daughter, is also an aspirant for ticket in the next Assembly polls.
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