Perhaps for the first time, Congress-turned-BJP Margao MLA Diggu has shed light on the developments leading to the change in guard in the Margao Municipal Council after he embraced the saffron brigade in September last. He did not say it was his tit-for-tat response to alliance partner-turned-foe Vijaibab Sardesai’s similar move in 2017. But in his characteristic style said it was natural that the Lotus had to bloom in the Margao civic body after he joined the party. Does that explain how the saffron brigade went about the job to ensure the Lotus bloom in the MMC, so much so the government amended the Goa Municipalities Act to hold elections for the Civic Chief via a show of hands?
