Rane, who came back to Goa from Mumbai Thursday afternoon condemned the incident and said that a thorough enquiry would be ordered into it.
While the Congress has consistently accused Speaker Vishwas Satarkar of being partisan, the BJP has maintained that the assembly is the speaker's domain.
Former Goa Congress MLA Vishwajit Rane, who had defied the party whip to vote against the trust motion of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar last month, on Thursday formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rane did not rule out the possibility of joining the BJP, saying 'all options are open'.
"In all, 22 of us (including 18 MLAs) met party chief and presented our view that we have majority in the state assembly," Pratapsinh Rane said.
The move could be attributed to the withdrawal of support to the state government by the Nationalist Congress Party and some independent legislators.
However, the action is not going to have any impact as the arithmetic still favours the Congress, which has 17 MLAs in a House of 34. The BJP has 16.
The "guests from Goa", BJP sources said, have been shifted to a private farm house on the Jaipur-Ajmer road, about 20 km from Jaipur.
In the 2012 assembly elections, Goa had recorded an impressive 81.8 per cent voting.
The anguish of the party MLAs seems to be directed at Digvijay Singh who has been handling the party affairs in Goa.
If pandemic (mis)management threatened to dominate Goa's electoral discourse, the BJP is up against a deeper structural issue in its organisation, created by the fact that a majority of the legislature party and the ministerial council is made up of Congress defectors, disparagingly referred to by the Opposition as "imports". Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
The Aam Aadmi Party, which entered the fray with much fanfare, failed to make any impact at the hustings.
Amid speculation that he would return to Goa politics, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday kept everyone guessing by describing himself as a "party man" who will work as per the directions of party leaders.
He was a leader who enjoyed acceptance from all sections of the BJP and beyond.
The two parties, however, are in a neck-and-neck race in Manipur and Goa.
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