Panaji, Oct. 21 :    Panaji, Oct. 21:  The BJP appears set to come to power on its own in Goa. The party today pulled out of the 11-month-old Francisco Sardinha coalition, reducing it to a minority, and said it would stake claim to form the government. Incumbent chief minister Sardinha is in Australia to promote tourism but is now expected to rush back. All the three BJP ministers - Prakash Phadte, Digambar Kamat and Suresh Amonkar - submitted their resignations to the leader of the legislature party, Manohar Parrikar. The Congress suffered a split today with four MLAs joining the BJP. Parrikar said the four MLAs, Ravi Naik, Ramakant Khalap, Sanjay Bandekar and Manohar Ajgaonkar, and five former Congressmen who left the party in August had joined the BJP. They had informed the Speaker, Pratapsinh Rane, he added. 'The BJP will stake claim to form a new government when they meet the Governor Mohd Fazal tomorrow at Raj Bhavan,' Parrikar said. 'The decision is subject to clearance by the party high command.' Parrikar, the Panaji MLA, is set to become the first BJP chief minister of Goa. The BJP, which had 10 MLAs in the 40-member House, will now have 19 MLAs. The two-member Maharashtra Gomantak Party (MGP) and an Independent MLA have also extended support to the BJP, taking its strength to 22. The Congress legislature party was reduced to 6 members after today's break-up.