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Mr Digambar Kamat, the Congress MLA from Margao, was today unanimously elected as the leader of the Congress legislature party and would be the new chief minister of the state. He would be sworn in tomorrow.Announcing the election of Mr Kamat after marathon discussion that lasted almost 10 hours, Ms Margaret Alva, the AICC general-secretary in charge of Goa desk, well past midnight said that the name of Mr Kamat to head the CLP was proposed by Mr Pratapsing Rane, the outgoing chief minister, and Mr Ravi Naik, the Goa pradesh Congress committee president. As the news of senior Congress leader and Margao MLA, Mr Kamat's election as new chief minister of Goa emerged, supporters of Mr Ravi Naik gathered near the venue of the meeting of the Congress legislative party and started raising slogans in favour of Mr Naik and against the high command of the Congress and Ms Alva.Mr Naik emerged from the meeting hall at 12.45 a.m. and escorted his supporters from the venue. However, some of his supporters stayed put at the venue and continued to shout slogans against the Congress. They also caused damage to hotel property and also prevented the exit of Congress emissaries for some time. The marathon CLP meeting also saw fortunes of party leaders fluctuating throughout the day. At one time it was "certain" that Mr Naik would be named as the new chief minister, but the scenario changed after the meeting of Mr Vishwajit Rane and the Dhavlikar brothers (Ramkrishna and Pandurang) with the high command emissaries, who refused to extend their support to Mr Naik.The central observers, who reached here in the afternoon, began meeting the party MLAs soon after their arrival at 3.15 p.m. at the venue. They met the newly-elected MLAs first and th eafter held the meeting with the party candidates who were defeated in the election. Earlier, Mr R K Dhavan and Mr Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters that the high command emissaries were still in the process of discussing which they said would take a long time. Earlier, they held meeting with Mr Rane at his residence.Meanwhile, the NCP leader, Dr Wilfred de Souza told the reporters that the ball was in the court of the Congress and that they are at the moment looking for a leader at the alliance partner, Congress and will continue to help them in the formation of alliance government. The two MGP MLAs, Mr Ramakrishna Dhavalikar and Mr Deepak Dhavalikar along with Mr Vishwajit Rane met the Governor, Mr S C Jamir, earlier in the day and briefed him about their conditional support to the Congress.The MGP president, Mr Pandurang Raut told The Navhind Times that the party yesterday submitted a letter to the Governor about its unconditional support to the Congress. "The MGP has not sent any other letter to Mr Jamir," he added. Taken from : http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=060840 Regards Dr. Ambert Pimenta ( presently in Arusha, Tanzania ) http://www.goadentist.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070608/aca704c6/attachment.htm ------------------------------------------------------- Goanet recommends, and is proud to be associated with, 'Domnic's Goa' - A nostalgic romp through a bygone era. This book is the perfect gift for any Goan, or anyone wanting to understand Goa. Distributed locally by Broadway, near Caculo Island, Panjim & internationally by OtherIndiaBookStore.Com. For trade enquiries contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------
