PANAJI: Nationalist Congress Party, which is part of the ruling alliance in Goa, tonight asked two of its ministers to resign from the Digamber Kamat cabinet.
NCP Goa unit president Surendra Sirsat told PTI that Revenue Minister Jose Philip D'Souza and Tourism Minister Nilkant Halarnkar have been asked to resign from the cabinet.
Sirsat said that the party has initiated an inquiry against both the ministers, who were reportedly huddled in a meeting with some Congress ministers on Wednesday night.
The resignation is sought to secure that the inquiry is impartial, he said.
The two ministers had panicked on Wednesday after NCP high command passed on the message to Chief Minister Digamber Kamat about dropping of one of the ministers from the cabinet, to accommodate NCP legislator Fransisco Micky Pacheco.
The former state tourism minister is likely to be inducted in the cabinet by next week.