{"id":310697,"date":"2019-03-20T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310697"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:40:34","slug":"goa-chief-minister-pramod-sawant-wins-floor-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/goa-chief-minister-pramod-sawant-wins-floor-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant wins floor test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310698 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sawant-1-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sawant-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sawant-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sawant-1.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Newly elected Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday won the floor test after 20 MLAs voted in his favour at a special session of the Goa Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">20 MLAs voted for the motion &#8211; 11 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 3 Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), 3 Goa Forward Party (GFP) and 3 Independents. However, 15 MLAs voted against the motion &#8211; 14 Congress and 1 NCP\u00a0in the Goa assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The strength of the 40-member house was reduced to 36 after the death of Manohar Parrikar, BJP MLA Francis D&#8217;Souza and resignations of two Congress MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Goa Governor Mridula Sinha had convened the special session at 11.30 am on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ruling BJP in the state had claimed that they had a majority in the 40-member House with the support of 21 MLAs -12 from the BJP, three each of ally partners GFP, MGP and three Independents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said that he was 100 per cent confident of winning the floor test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sawant, 45, was sworn in as the new chief minister of Goa around 2 am on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday won the floor test after 20 MLAs voted in his favour at a special session of the Goa Assembly. 20 MLAs voted for the motion &#8211; 11 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 3 Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), 3 Goa Forward Party (GFP) and 3 Independents. However, 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2922,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[11170,2025,11169,11171,11157,11158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310699,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310697\/revisions\/310699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}