GG News Bureau
Panaji, 15th March. Thirty-nine newly-elected members of the Goa Assembly took oath during the session convened by Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai on Tuesday.
Earlier, Pillai had administered the oath to another MLA Ganesh Gaonkar as pro-tem speaker on Monday.
Polls to the 40-member Goa Assembly were held on February 14 and the results were declared on March 10.
On Tuesday, MLA Ganesh Gaonkar administered the oath to 39 elected members of the House.
The MLAs took the oath in the language of their choice Konkani, Marathi or English.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged as a single largest political party in Goa by winning 20 seats, one short of the majority mark, but the party is yet to stake a claim to form government.
Talking to media outside the Assembly, senior Congress leader Digambar Kamat said that this was the first time in the history of the state that the MLAs were sworn in without a government in place.
Earlier, before the oath ceremony, two MLAs reached the Assembly building on two-wheelers.
Revolutionary Goans party leader Viresh Borkar, who won the election from St Andre Assembly constituency in South Goa district, came on a motorcycle with his party head Manoj Parab.
Besides, Antonio Vas, who won as an independent candidate from Cortalim seat in South Goa, arrived in the Assembly building on a scooter.
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