It took nearly six hours after Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s death to settle on a successor. Pramod Sawant was sworn in as Chief Minister at 2 am. The reason? In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP got only 13 seats, four less than the Congress’ 17, in a house of 40. It was able to form a government largely because of the Congress lethargy and the special persuasive powers of Nitin Gadkari and Parrikar. On the back on unspecified promises made by Parrikar to Ramkrishna “Sudin” Dhavalikar of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and Vijai Sardesai, mentor of the
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