Kamat sworn-in as 19th CM of Goa

Congress leader Digambar Kamat was sworn-in as the nineteenth Chief Minister of Goa here today.

Panaji, June 8 : Congress leader Digambar Kamat was sworn-in as the nineteenth Chief Minister of Goa here today.

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.

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 Pratap Sinh 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