Goa minister removed from Cabinet weeks after alleging corruption in CM’s department

Goa minister Govind Gaude was on Wednesday removed from the state Cabinet, three weeks after he made allegations of corruption in the Department of Tribal Welfare, The Indian Express reported.

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant holds the tribal welfare portfolio in the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party government.

The decision to drop Gaude, the art and culture minister, from the Cabinet was taken unanimously, Goa BJP chief Damu Naik told The Indian Express.

“It was taken after consultations by the government, the party and the party’s central leadership,” he was quoted as saying. “Party discipline is a must.”

A gazette notification said that Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai had accepted the chief minister’s recommendation to remove Gaude from the Council of Ministers, the newspaper reported.

In a social media post, Gaude said that he had been “rewarded this fate” for standing with the marginalised sections of society on the occasion of Goa Liberation Day, which is celebrated on June 18.

चिड्डल्या माडल्या लोकांचो पक्ष घेतलो हाची पावती गोंयच्या क्रांती दिसाक मेळप हाच्या परस व्हडले भाग्य आसपाक शकना. जे गजालीक लागून ह्या सरकारान ही भूमीका घेतल्या त्या संघर्शाक आवाज दिवपाक मेकळो केल्या खातीर म्हज्या सरकाराचें आनी पक्षाचें उपकार आटयता. सत्ता आनी सत्य भीतर निवड करपाची…— Govind Gaude (@Govind_Gaude) June 18, 2025

At a state-level function on May 26, Gaude had alleged that the state tribal welfare...

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