The Congress, which cried foul against the BJP for “stealing the Goa mandate” from it, has failed in keeping a small flock of 17 MLAs together (“Manohar Parrikar wins floor test with 22 votes in Goa Assembly”, March 16). A welcome fact about the trust vote was that there was live coverage of the Assembly proceedings. As Manohar Parrikar claimed, no one was kept captive and everyone voted of their own volition. This is completely different from what happened in the Tamil Nadu Assembly last month. All the MLAs who voted for Edappadi Palaniswami were brought from Koovathur before the trust vote and there were no live proceedings. Chaos reigned in the Assembly. Had the proceedings been made public, we would have known whose claim was correct given that different versions emerged flrom the DMK working president and the Governor. Tamil Nadu could do well to take a leaf from Goa’s book.
Subramaniyan N., Chennai