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New chief minister of Goa to be sworn in Monday: State BJP president Vinay Tendulkar

Goa assembly speaker Pramod Sawant, BJP ally Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party MLA Sudin Dhavalikar and BJP legislator Vishwajit Rane are the aspirants for the post.

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Panaji: Goa BJP president Vinay Tendulkar said there would be clarity on who would be the state’s new chief minister by 2 pm Monday.

Tendulkar said this after meeting Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari at a hotel near here over the issue.

Hectic political activities are on in the coastal state to select the new chief minister after the death of chief minister Manohar Parrikar Sunday.

“The decision on chief ministerial candidate is yet to be taken. But the picture will be clear by 2 pm,” Tendulkar said, adding that the new chief minister would be sworn in after 3 pm Monday.

Tendulkar met Gadkari along with Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant, who is a contender for the top post.

Earlier in the day, Gadkari met ally Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) MLAs led by Sudin Dhavalikar and BJP legislator Vishwajit Rane.

Dhavalikar and Rane are also aspirants for the chief minister’s post, BJP sources said. Sawant and Rane are front- runners, they added.

Meetings held on Sunday night by the BJP and its alliance partners the Goa Forward Party, the MGP and independents – remained inconclusive.

Gadkari again held talks Monday morning with leaders of the BJP and MGP to finalise Parrikar’s successor.


Also read: Everyone has an opinion, but no one is willing to take decisions: Manohar Parrikar in 2013


 

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  1. This should have been done six months ago. A competent Joint Secretary level officer from the Centre, appointed as Chief Secretary, could run the state on auto pilot. In many ways, postage stamp sized Goa was too small a canvas for a man of Shri Manohar Parrikar’s calibre to have limited his ambitions to.

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