Panaji, Jan 25 (PTI) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday took a swipe at his former cabinet colleague Michael Lobo for `giving priority to wife over country".Lobo, who was a minister in the BJP government, recently quit the party along with his wife Deliah to join Congress ahead of assembly elections.He was reportedly seeking BJP ticket for his wife from Siolim constituency but was spurned.“We work with the philosophy of `nation first, state first", while former MLA Michael Lobo, who has left the party, has his priority as "patni pratham" (wife first),” Sawant said.The CM was talking to reporters after Joseph Sequeira, a local leader from Calangute constituency, was inducted in the BJP.People of Siolim and Calangute were smart enough to understand why Lobo switched parties, Sawant added.Congress has given ticket to Lobo from Calangute and to his wife from Siolim.The chief minister, meanwhile, claimed that the BJP will win more than 22 seats in the 40-member Goa Assembly in the February 14 polls.Its candidates were getting “good response” from voters who were vouching for the development carried out by the government, he said. PTI RPS KRK KRK