Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar on Wednesday accused 10 BJP MLAs of allegedly committing forgery and fraud while breaking away from the Congress and merging into the BJP in 2019. In a complaint filed before the Panaji police station, Chodankar has also said that the ten MLAs led by current deputy Chief Minister ChandrakantKavlekar had allegedly "conspired together and fraudulently created a false document claiming it to be resolution of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee" before submitting the document to Speaker of the state legislative assembly Rajesh Patnekar. The development comes a day after Speaker Rajesh Patnekar in an oral order dismissed a disqualification petition filed by Chodankar against the ten MLAs. Chodankar in his petition had argued the split by the 10 Congress MLAs and their subsequent merger into the BJP was illegal and violative of the provisions of Schedule 10 of the Indian Constitution. (IANS)