New Goa CM Kamat for friendly governance

New Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Friday said that his immediate task would be to give people-friendly governance.

Panaji, June 8 : New Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Friday said that his immediate task would be to give people-friendly governance.

After being sworn-in as the new Chief Minister, Kamat said: "My immediate task will be to give people-friendly governance. Such governance that common man will feel that this government belongs to him".

Kamat also said that the law and order problem will be taken care of and officers, who do not treat common man properly, will be made accountable.

Besides Kamat, Ravi Naik from Congress, Jose Phillip from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Ramakrishna from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) were sworn-in as ministers at an oath taking ceremony held in Raj Bhavan this morning.

Fifty-four-year-old Kamat was the Power Minister in the last Congress government.

Kamat was in the Congress for many years until 1994 when the BJP nominated him from Margao after he was denied ticket by the Congress. He quit the Parrikar Government in February 2005 and was re-elected twice from Margao since then.

His name came as a compromise candidate after the CLP failed to decide between the outgoing Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane and state Congress party president Ravi Naik.

The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance emerged as the single largest combine in the 40-member Goa Assembly, with the support of two independents and a two-member regional party.

The two independent MLAs are Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane's son Vishwajeet and Anil Salgoacar, while the regional party is the MGP.

The Congress won 16 seats, the BJP 14, NCP three and others seven.

ANI