* Dr Pramod Sawant meets PM Modi in Delhi
* Sources claims Sawant’s name has been finalised for CM post
Goemkarponn desk
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met the Chief Minister and the Goa BJP team at New Delhi today.
CM Sawant and BJP State President Sadanand Tanavade yesterday late night to meet the top leaders on government formation. Sources have claimed that Sawant names has been finalised for the Chief Ministers post.
“Our party is grateful to the people of Goa for blessing us yet again with the mandate to serve the state. We will keep working for Goa’s progress in the times to come,” tweeted PM Modi after meeting Sawant.
Before leaving for the national capital, Goa acting Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said that the new government will be formed after the election of the leader of the legislative party in the presence of the Central observer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Central observer (of the BJP) will come… a discussion will be done, and the leader of the legislative party will be elected and then the formation of the government will take place. I am going to Delhi today,” said Sawant.
The BJP Parliamentary Board has appointed Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar as the central observer for Goa and Union Minister of State for Fisheries and Animal Husbandry L Murugan has been made the co-observer.
On Saturday, Sawant tendered his resignation to Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai at Raj Bhawan in Panaji to pave way for the formation of the new government after the BJP won the popular mandate in the state. The BJP emerged as the single largest party in Goa, winning 20 seats in the 40-member state Assembly, leaving Congress with 11 seats at a distant second position.