Digambar Kamat new
chief minister
Sandesh Prabhudesai
7 June 2007
Digambar Kamat will be now Goa's new chief minister. He
will be sworn in tomorrow morning.
The decision was taken late tonight. He emerged as the compromise
candidate to overcome a daylong tussle between the supporters
of Pratapsing Rane and Ravi Naik.
Congress high command emissaries union power minister Sushilkumar
Shinde, MP R K Dhawan and Goa desk in-charge Margaret Alva,
at a CLP meeting held at midnight convinced the legislators
in this regard.
The emissaries were in a hurry to take a decision, it is
learnt, since Congress president Sonia Gandhi is leaving for
Holland tomorrow morning.
Earlier, Ravi tried to seek support of Churchill Alemao.
However, it was vehemently opposed by defeated candidates
and former ministers Francisco Sardinha and Luizinho Faleiro,
besides few MLAs supporting Rane.
MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar, along with his elected brother
Dipak and independent MLA Vishwajeet Rane, had demanded that
Rane be continued as the chief minister.
Besides 16 MLAs of the Congress, the alliance is now supported
by the three-member NCP, two-member MGP and Vishwajeet, an
independent. Anil Salgaoncar, another independent, has also
extended unconditional support to the alliance government.
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