Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit Goa on Saturday, a few months before the parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in the coastal states next year, to meet with party workers and people. The Chairman of the National Congress Goa Party, Girish Jordanka, told the news agency PTI on Tuesday that Gandhi will deliver a party workers’ meeting at the SPM Stadium in Bambolim, near Panaji, and will participate in various other party-level events during the day.
On Sunday, the leaders of Congress will meet with fishermen in Velsao. “Rahul Gandhi will interact with fishermen in Velsao (a coastal village) and people who will be affected by the railway multiplication project (traveling through the same village),” Jordanka said. Chodankar added that Gandhi will also meet people affected by the mining shutdown in Panaji, and then address the party workers’ assembly at the SPM Stadium. Gandhi’s visit came two days after the top leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, began a three-day visit to Goa on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi, Payaka Gandhi and other senior leaders of the Congress attended the meeting in New Delhi. In 2022, they will discuss with Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur to be held in Goa. Parliamentary elections. As one of the main opposition parties in Goa, the National Assembly is preparing to fight for a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The party leader P Chidambaram, who has been appointed as a senior election observer for the 2022 term of Congress, asserts that Congress is best able to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and form the next government in Goa. “We enter the election arena with the intention of winning the election and forming a Congress government in 2022,” Chidambaram told PTI on October 24, adding that the party’s preparations are methodical and strong.
In the 2017 elections, the National Congress Party became the largest single political party in Goa. However, the BJP was unable to come to power because of alliances with some independents and regional parties to form a government.
News Source : Hindustan Times
