Girish Chodankar appointed as new Goa Congress chief

Panaji: The Congress on Friday appointed its Central Working Committee member Girish Chodankar as the new president of the party's Goa unit.

Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal issued the order replacing current state Congress chief Amit Patkar with Chodankar who had held the post in the past.

Chodankar is currently the All India Congress Committee in-charge for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Senior leaders including M K Shaikh, Altone D'Costa and Carlos Alvares Ferreira were appointed as working presidents of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee, while Datta D Naik was appointed as treasurer.

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Yuri Alemao will head the state Congress campaign committee, while MP Viriato Fernandes will head its manifesto committee.

Former MP Francisco Sardinha is the chairperson of the coordination committee and GPCC Vice President Sunil Kawthankar is its co- chairperson.