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BJP leader Manohar Parrikar, who quit as the Defence Minister a day earlier, has on Wednesday taken charge as new chief minister of Goa for the fourth time.
"Fact that many ministers lost indicates there was something wrong in governance in last 2.5 years, let me identify that aspect, Parrikar said as he took charge of the CM office in Goa.
The Supreme Court had on Tuesday directed his new government to prove its majority via a floor test in the state assembly on Thursday.
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The Congress has accused Goa Governor Mridula Sinha of acting unilaterally and inviting the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a government in Goa, without even meeting the 17 elected leaders of the Congress, which has emerged the largest party in the 40-member assembly after the state elections.
The Goa Governor administered the oath of office to Parrikar at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday evening.
While Parrikar and his nine-member cabinet were being sworn-in, hundreds of people protested near Raj Bhavan, accusing the newly appointed chief minister and the leader of Goa Forward of trying to subvert the electoral mandate and using unfair means to come to power in the coastal state.
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