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Sawant’s name for the top post was cleared at a meeting of the newly-elected BJP MLAs and senior party leaders in Panaji in the evening.
The meeting was also attended by BJP central observers Narendra Singh Tomar and L Murugan, Assembly poll in-charge Devendra Fadnavis, and the party’s state unit president, Sadanand Shet Tanavade.
“It has been decided that Dr. Pramod Sawant would be the leader of the House,” Tomar told reporters after the meeting.
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Tomar said Sawant’s election was unanimous.
He said the party will now stake a claim to form the next government in Goa.
The BJP won 20 seats, just one short of the majority in the 40-member Assembly, in the February 14 polls. It has received support from two MLAs of the MGP and three Independent legislators.