Goa CM Pramod Sawant: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Sawant has created history by completing six consecutive years as the Chief Minister of Goa. Sawant completed six consecutive years of his tenure on Wednesday. He has become the only person to hold the post of Chief Minister in the state for a uninterrupted period of six years. Sawant has broken the record of his predecessor Manohar Parrikar and former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat.
51 -year -old Sawant, who represented the Sankhalim assembly constituency of North Goa, is currently completing his second term as the Chief Minister of the state. After the death of Manohar Parrikar, Sawant first took oath as Chief Minister on March 19, 2019. Six years ago, on March 19, after Parrikar’s funeral, Sawant was sworn in as Chief Minister in the early hours. At that time Sawant, 45, was working as the Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the leadership of Sawant, won the state assembly elections by winning 20 out of a total of 40 seats and took oath as Chief Minister for the second time on 28 March 2022. However, Sawant has achieved the achievement of being in the top position for six consecutive years, he was Parrikar who took over the state for almost nine years (eight years and 349 days). Parrikar was sworn in as Chief Minister three times in the years 2000, 2012 and 2017.
Sawant has presented the state budget five times so far and is preparing to present the sixth budget on 26 March during the upcoming assembly session starting from 24 March. After Goa became the kingdom in 1987, the then Congress leader Digambar Kamat was the only Chief Minister to complete a five -year term from 2007 to 2012.
