While the BJP, which emerged as the single-largest party in the recently concluded Goa election, is yet to form a government, all newly-elected members of the eighth Legislative Assembly were sworn in on Tuesday.
Of the 40 MLAs, pro-tem Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar, BJP MLA from Sanvordem, was sworn in on Monday by Governor P.S. Shreedharan Pillai.
Mr. Gaonkar presided over the swearing-in of the other 19 BJP MLAs along with 11 from the Congress, two each from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), one each from the Goa Forward Party (GFP) and the Revolutionary Goans (RG) and three independents.