Pramod Sawant, Shripad Naik, Vishwajit Rane among front-runners for Goa CM post

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away on Sunday evening. The first BJP to be Goa Chief Minister, Parrikar headed the state from 2000-05 and 2012-14, before joining the Narendra Modi government as Defence Minister from 2014. He returned to state politics in 2017 as CM.
In the race of becoming the Chief Minister of Goa, Pramod Sawant, Shripad Naik, Vishwajit Rane are the front-runners