Kamat to be sworn-in as new Goa CM

Digambar Kamat, the Congress MLA from Margao, will be sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Goa today.

Panaji, June 8 : Digambar Kamat, the Congress MLA from Margao, will be sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Goa today.

Kamat, 54, was "unanimously" elected as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) on Thursday.Besides Kamat, three others - Ravi Naik from Congress, Jose Phillip from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Sudin Dhavlikar from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) will also be sworn-in as ministers.

Kamat's 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.

He was the Power Minister in the last Congress government.

He had joined Congress just two years ago after quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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