PANAJI:
All India Congress Committee (AICC) Goa desk in-charge Manikrao Thackeray on Wednesday advised leaders, office bearers and workers to shed their petty internal differences and reinvigorate the party to robustly fight the upcoming Zilla Panchayat and eventually the assembly polls.
Thackeray who was addressing the party's extended State Executive meeting said the party will be led by GPCC president, Amit Patkar and all should cooperate with him and strengthen the party.
Thackeray and AICC Secretary Dr Anjali Nimbalkar besides Patkar, Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao, Aldona MLA Carlos Ferreira, and former GPCC chief Girish Chodankar and others attended the meeting which was held at the Surendrababu Timblo hall of the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
According to Thakeray, who later addressed the media along with others, the meeting discussed at length various measures and programmes that need to be taken up to strengthen the party organisation.
Preparations for the upcoming Zilla Panchayat elections were also discussed, Thakeray said, adding that party workers were advised to unite and fight against the injustice meted out to the common people via the jobs-for-cash scam.
Nimbalkar, meanwhile, is expected to meet with groups of party workers across the State in the next few days. The party will focus in the next few months on strengthening its grass-root support base in all the constituencies, Thakeray said.
High command to decide alliances
PANAJI:
Responding to media queries on the party's alliances with other Opposition parties, particularly the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) where there has been some discomfort and turf-wars between the two for the ZP elections, Nimbalkar said decisions will be taken at appropriate time.
"We will tour the State to know the opinion of the people and convey it to the party high command. After that, the Congress party high command will take the decision on whether to contest the elections by forming an alliance or not," Nimbalkar, a former MLA from Karnataka said.
Viral video BJP's ploy to
defame MLA: Thackeray
Asked to comment on the viral video purportedly of a Congress MLA related to the sextortion case, AICC Goa in-charge Manikrao Thackeray said that the ruling BJP only wants to defame the Congress party and its leaders.
Thackeray alleged that the video being released and going viral is the handiwork of the BJP leaders and said that the MLA has filed a complaint which is being investigated by the police.
