Panaji: Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Pramod Sawant took oath as the Chief Minister of Goa in a ceremony held at 2 am today, as the saffron party managed to keep its allies together after hectic negotiations all through the day. Sawant will have two deputies — unprecedented for the tiny seaside State. One is from the MGP and the other from the Goa Forward Party.
The 45-year-old Sawant took over from former Defence Minister and four-time CM of Goa Manohar Parrikar, who was cremated at the Miramar beach yesterday. The crucial transition of power in the coastal State necessitated by Parrikar’s death on Sunday capped frenzied political developments, with the Congress too staking claim to power.
