Goa Assembly Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar on Thursday said he had accepted the merger of the state Congress Legislature Party (CLP) into the ruling BJP.
He went through a letter submitted by Congress MLAs and found that they have required numbers, he told reporters.
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Eight out of 11 Congress MLAs on Wednesday passed a resolution to merge the legislature party into the BJP.