<span style="color: #222222;">In Goa's BJP MLA Ramesh Tawadkar has been elected as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He defeated the candidate of combined Opposition Congress MLA Alexio Sequeira by 24 votes to 15 votes. Protem Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar conducted the elections to the Speaker on the very first day of the first assembly session of the new assembly.   </span><br />