Panaji (Goa): Pramod Sawant on Monday took oath as the Goa Chief Minister for the second consecutive term at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium.
The key attendees included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Haryana CM ML Khattar and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Vishwajeet Rane, Mauvin Godinho, Ravi Naik, Nilesh Cabral, Subhash Shirodkar, Rohan Khaunte, Atanasio Monserrate, and Govind Gaude also took oath as Ministers today.
Before Sawant, Goa for the Bharatiya Janata Party had all been about the former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who had also served as Union Minister for Defence.
Sawant, 48, is widely known to have been the protege of Parrikar. Parrikar, a former IIT graduate, was the flag-bearer of the BJP in the coastal state for decades.
PM Shri @narendramodi attends oath-taking ceremony of Goa CM @DrPramodPSawant at Panaji, Goa. https://t.co/tVLf5ZdkdI
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PM Narendra Modi attends the oath-taking ceremony of CM-designate Pramod Sawant, at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium in Goa. pic.twitter.com/4SoEwPPj5e
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Goa | BJP President JP Nadda, Haryana CM ML Khattar and Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai arrive at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium for the oath-taking ceremony of CM-designate Pramod Sawant
Prime Minister Modi has also arrived at Panaji to attend the oath ceremony pic.twitter.com/6Ynsd3aLop
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2022
Goa | CM designate Pramod Sawant today handed over the order for appointing Council of Ministers to Goa Governor at Raj Bhavan
Vishwajeet Rane, Mauvin Godinho, Ravi Naik, Nilesh Cabral, Subhash Shirodkar, Rohan Khaunte, Atanasio Monserrate &Govind Gaude to take oath as ministers pic.twitter.com/2jO7X1AV56
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2022
Goa CM-designate Pramod Sawant arrives at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium for the oath-taking ceremony pic.twitter.com/NyLp4W0wrh
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2022
The list of invitees for the ceremony include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda, other Union Ministers and Chief Ministers of at least eight states.
In the recently concluded state Assembly polls, the BJP emerged as the single largest party in Goa, winning 20 seats in the 40-member state Assembly and reducing Congress to 11 seats.
The BJP fell one seat short of the majority figure in Goa but is set to retain power in the state with the help of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and independent candidates.
