PANAJI : Pramod Sawant took oath as the Chief Minister of Goa for the second term on 28 March, Monday. The Sawant led cabinet featured some new faces like Rohan Khaunte, Ravi Naik, Subhash Shirodkar and Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate.

       Notably, Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate's wife Jennifer Monserrate was dropped from the council, who was Pramod Sawant's only woman minister during his first tenure.

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       Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate is a BJP heavyweight MLA, from the Panaji Assembly constituency. He has been a three-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He was also one of the 10 MLAs of Congress who had joined the BJP in July 2019. Monserrate was made a Minister of Town and Country Planning in the Manohar Parrikar-led government in the state.

       Jennifer Monserrate, wife of Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate, was an an MLA from Taleigao. She was the only woman Minister in the first term of Sawant as the Chief Minister. But she has now been dropped from the new council of ministers.

       New faces in Pramod Sawant's cabinet

       Apart from Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate, there were three new faces in the council of ministers that took oath in Panaji on Monday- Rohan Khaunte, Ravi Naik, Subhash Shirodkar.

       Rohan Khaunte, an MLA from Porvorim constituency of Goa, has previously served as Minister of IT, Revenue, Labour and Employment and Planning and Statistics and Evaluation in the Cabinet of Manohar Parrikar.

       Rohan first contested the Goa Assembly Elections in 2012 as an independent candidate and won by a majority of votes. He is a self-proclaimed sports lover and represented the state of Goa in the field of Cricket and Basketball.

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       Subhash Shirodkar, another new face, is the party's candidate from Siroda constituency. The 70-year old had quit Congress in 2018 and had resigned as the Member of the Legislative Assembly to join the Bharatiya Janata Party.

       Ravi Naik, the former Chief Minister of Goa, began his career with the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. He is a member of five-member Congress Legislative Party (CLP) of Goa and remained with the party during the two-thirds split in the CLP in 2019 when 10 MLAs had defected to the ruling BJP.

       Pramod Sawant led-cabinet takes oath

       Eight state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders along with the Chief Minister took oath at a grand swearing-in ceremony here which was also attended by top party brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

       Following Sawant taking the oath, the BJP leaders Vishwajit Rane, Mauvin Godinho, Ravi Naik, Nilesh Cabral, Subhash Shirodkar, Rohan Khaunte, Govind Gaude, and Atanasio Monserrate were also sworn in as Goa's cabinet ministers.

       Former Goa Ministers Vishwajit Rane, Mauvin Godinho, Nilesh Cabral managed to stay in the newly sworn in government, while four former ministers, which included a few who had left the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the state polls, were missing from the new Goa government.

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