BJP's Pramod Sawant Has Edge In Race For Goa Chief Minister: Sources

Hours after Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's death on Sunday evening, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari landed in Panaji and held overnight meetings with alliance partners to decide on a successor and save the coalition government as the opposition Congress staked claim to power for the second time in two days. In the 2017 Goa polls, when the Congress emerged as the largest party in a hung verdict, it was Nitin Gadkari who had negotiated alliances to establish a BJP-led coalition with Manohar Parrikar - then Union Defence Minister - as chief minister.

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