Sirsat flays Churchill for interfering

PANJIM, DEC 17
Finally, after waiting for more than 24 hours after the NCP high command called for resignations of the two legislators as ministers,state president of the party Surendra Sirsat issued an official statement into the whole crisis like situation.
 In what could set the tone for further sparring between the NCP and the Congress, Sirsat chided Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao for interfering in the internal affairs of NCP. He said he had learnt Churchill had stated in case Jose Philipe de Souza and Nilkanth Halarnkar are pressurised to resign as ministers, he had alternate plans.
He said the utterances of Churchill were uncalled for and they were also against the tenets of coalition dharma.