Government of Goa
Gōyānchen sarakāra

Seat of Government	Goa Legislative Assembly Building, Panaji
Website	www.goa.gov.in
Legislative branch
Assembly	Goa Legislative Assembly
Speaker	Ramesh Tawadkar,BJP
Deputy Speaker	Joshua D'Souza,BJP
Members in Assembly	40
Executive branch
Governor	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
Chief Minister	Pramod Sawant,BJP
Chief Secretary	Dr. V. CandavelouIAS
Judiciary branch
High Court	Bombay High Court
Chief Justice	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya

TheGovernment of Goa is astate government created by theConstitution of India and has executive, legislative and judicial authority of the state ofGoa. It is headquartered inPanaji, thecapital city of Goa.^[1]

The governor's is largely a ceremonial post but has a crucial role when it comes to deciding who should form the next government or suspending the legislature as has happened in the recent past. After having stable governance for nearly thirty years up to 1990, Goa is now notorious for its political instability having seen fourteen governments in the span of the fifteen years between 1990 and 2005.^[2] In March 2005, the assembly was dissolved by the governor andPresident's rule was declared, which suspended the legislature. Aby-election in June 2005 saw the Congress coming back to power after winning three of the five seats that went to the polls. TheIndian National Congress (INC) and theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are the two largest parties in the state. In the assembly poll of 2007, a Congress-led coalition won and started ruling the state.^[3] Other parties include theUnited Goans Democratic Party, theNationalist Congress Party and theMaharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.^[4]

In the 2012 election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated the Indian National Congress government in Goa, led byCMDigambar Kamat. The election was won by the BJP-Maharashtrawadi Gomantak alliance which won 24 seats in the 40-seat assembly. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 21 seats, while the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party won 3 seats.Manohar Parrikar, leader of the BJP, was sworn in as Chief Minister of Goa on 9 March 2012. After Parrikar died fromcancer in March 2019, he was succeeded byPramod Sawant as the CM.

House	Leader	Portrait	Since
Constitutional Posts
Governor of Goa	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		7 July 2021
Chief Minister of Goa	Pramod Sawant		19 March 2019
Speaker of Vidhan Sabha, Goa	Ramesh Tawadkar		29 March 2022
Deputy Speaker of Vidhan Sabha, Goa	Joshua D'Souza		22 July 2022
Leader of the House Goa Legislative Assembly	Pramod Sawant		19 March 2019
Leader of the Opposition Goa Legislative Assembly	Yuri Alemao		30 September 2022
Chief JusticeBombay High Court	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya		29 July 2023
Chief Secretary of Goa	Puneet Kumar Goel		NA

• As in March 2022

• Districts of Goa
• Talukas of Goa
• List of cities and towns in Goa

• List of constituencies of Goa Legislative Assembly
• North Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)
• South Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)

• Pramod Sawant ministry
• Third Parrikar ministry
• Parsekar ministry
• Second Parrikar ministry
• Kamat ministry
• Fifth Pratapsingh Rane ministry
• First Parrikar ministry
• Sardinha ministry

• "Departments | Government of Goa".Government of Goa | Official Portal. Retrieved5 April 2022.

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