Manohar Parrikar becomes Goa CM for 4th time - Check who all became ministers in 'Parrikar Cabinet'

Panaji: Manohar Parrikar on Monday resigned as the Defence Minister to take over the new role as Goa Chief Minister. He took oath as Goa CM on Tuesday. Here are details of the swearing-in ceremony:-

- Nine ministers took oath as ministers in 'Parrikar Cabinet'

Nine ministers were also sworn in during the ceremony, namely Sudin Dhavalikar and Manohar Azgaonkar of the Maharashtrawdi Gomantak Party, Vijai Sardesai, Vinod Palienkar and Jayesh Salgaonkar of the Goa Forward, Francis D`Souza, Pandurang Madkaikar of the BJP and Independent legislators Govind Gawde and Rohan Khaunte.

-Vinod Palyekar takes oath as Goa minister

-Independent MLA Govind Gawade takes oath as Goa minister

- Pandurang Madkaikar takes oath as Goa minister

- Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte takes oath as Goa minister

- MGP's Babu Ajgaonkar takes oath as Goa minister

- GFP's Vijay Sardesai takes oath as Goa minister

- MGP's Sudin Dhavalikar takes oath as Goa minister

- Manohar Parrikar takes oath as Goa CM  (Visual from Raj Bhavan in Goa)

- Panaji, Goa: Manohar Parrikar to take oath as Chief Minister of Goa, shortly (VISUAL FROM THE SPOT 

- Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Venkaiah Naidu and other senior BJP leaders arrive at Goa Raj Bhavan for Manohar Parrikar's swearing-in ceremony

- 11 MLAs to take oath including 5 of BJP and 6 of supporting parties

- Floor test will take place in Goa Assembly on Mar 16 at 11 AM

- BJP president Amit Shah, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari are expected to remain present at the swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan 

- The oath-taking ceremony is likely to begin shortly

- The ceremony is likely to begin around 5 PM

-  Around eight MLAs would take oath as ministers along with Manohar Parrikar who is set to return as Goa Chief Minister, the BJP said.

- "Around eight to nine ministers including two each from the Goa Forward Party and the Maharashta Gomantak Party and two independents will be sworn in. Two or three ministers from BJP (including Parrikar) too will take the oath," BJP's Goa unit president Vinay Tendulkar said.

- The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the swearing in of BJP's chief minister candidate Manohar Parrikar and ordered a floor test in the Goa Legislative Assembly on March 16.

- The apex court was listening to a petition filed by the Congress challenging the Goa governor's decision to invite the BJP to form government in the coastal state.

- "Among the BJP legislators, (current) deputy CM Francis D'Souza and another legislator whose name would be announced on Tuesday and will be sworn in," he said.

- Tendulkar, however, added that from BJP only Parrikar and D'Souza might be sworn in. "That possibility cannot be ruled out," he said.

- "Three or four ministerial berths would be filled in the cabinet expansion later," Tendulkar said.

- Governor Mridula Sinha has invited Parrikar to form the government after he produced letter of support of 21 MLAs, though the BJP finished as the second-largest party behind the Congress, bagging merely 13 seats against 17 of the Congress.

- Parrikar was accompanied by GFP leader Vijai Sardesai and MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar when he met Governor Sinha and staked the claim to form the government.