Goa NCP rebels against appointment of 'unknown' state unit president
Panaji, Top office bearers of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Goa on Monday claimed they "did not know" their newly-appointed state president Suhas Volvoikar, and accused the party's high command of foisting a leader unknown to the state leadership.

Addressing a joint press conference here, with over a dozen members of the NCP's state executive committee, party general secretary Jose Philip D'Souza also said that if party supremo Sharad Pawar and other central leaders like Praful Patel did not revert the decision in seven days, they may have to face a rebellion in the ranks.

"This is completely unfair. How can you appoint a state president who no one knows. I can say that many of us have not even met him before. The new president is not even a primary member of the NCP," said D'Souza, a former state NCP president.

"If the top brass does not resolve the problem in seven days, then we will be forced to act on our own," D'Mello said.