Stability of the three-year-old Congress-led coalition in Goa appears to be under threat with seven MLAs deciding not to support the Finance Bill over the issue of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat planning to drop an MGP legislator from the cabinet.

Facing opposition's flak for wearing a huge currency garland at a BSP rally, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday accused her political rivals of conspiring to turn the event into a damp squib and announced a phased agitation from March 27 to expose them.

In a brazen act of defiance, Mayawati on Wednesday ignored the opposition outcry over her being adorned with 1000-rupee notes and was again garlanded with currency notes to the tune of Rs 18 lakh.

The huge garland that Mayawati wore at a public rally caused the disruption of the Lok Sabha on Tuesday even as the estimated value of the currency notes of which it was made varied from Rs 21 lakhs to Rs 15 crore.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev plans to launch his own party though he says he won't fight elections. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday Baba Ramdev said his new party will field candidates for all seats in the next Lok Sabha election due in 2014.