All conversions null
& void: Digambar sworn in
Sandesh Prabhudesai
8 June 2007
All the land conversions made under the Regional Plan 2011
stand null and void since the plan itself is scrapped, said
newly sworn in chief minister Digambar Kamat at Raj Bhavan
today.
Along with him, Congress MLA Ravi Naik, NCP leader Jose Philip
D'Souza and MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar were also administered
oath of secrecy by Governor S C Jamir.
Outgoing chief minister Pratapsing Rane was also seated on
the dais. Chief Secretary J P Singh conducted the ceremony.
The cabinet expansion would take place only after Congress
president Sonia Gandhi returns from her Holland trip.
The party high command would decide about the deputy chief
minister's post, whom to induct from the Congress as well
as from among the independents in the cabinet, , Kamat told
the media.
Kamat, at a press conference held at the Raj Bhavan after
the ceremony, also said the new Regional Plan 2017 would be
prepared after consulting the experts and the people, as was
assured in the party manifesto.
He said his first priority would be to tone up the administration
and restore law and order in the state.
He has already convened a meeting of the top officers today
to get prepared to face the monsoons, which will arrive in
the state in next three days.
From the Raj Bhavan, Kamat drove down straight to the tomb
of Bhausaheb Bandodkar at Miramar and then at the statue of
Dr Jack de Sequeira at Dona Paula, offering tributes to the
first chief minister and first opposition leader of the state.
The ceremony was held in a pandal specially erected outside
the Raj Bhavan. It was overcrowded.
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