Goa NCP overhaul on ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Times of India | 6 months ago | 29-05-2022 | 04:49 am

Panaji: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday formally appointed 13 block presidents for Goa as the party goes through a restructuring process. The party has also appointed district observers, one for each of Goa’s two districts. While announcing the appointments, the party’s Goa in-charge Clyde Crasto said that NCP is gearing up to contest every election in the state, including Lok Sabha elections. Crasto did add a subtle rider saying that only if the party “is ready” would it field candidates for the two Lok Sabha seats in 2024. “Lok Sabha, we are looking at both the seats. We will take it as it comes, and if we are ready, then we will contest both,” said Crasto. The party is in the midst of an overhaul in Goa. Crasto has been in Goa for three days, visiting party workers, block committees and sympathisers. He handed over the appointment letters to the 13 block presidents on Saturday in the presence of state party president Jose Philip D’Souza. The party has appointed its Porvorim constituency candidate Shankar Phadte as the North Goa district president and Digvijay Velingkar as observer. Down south, its Quepem candidate Aloysious D’Silva will serve as district president, while Ravindra Talaulikar will be the observer. Former MLAs Filipe Nery Rodrigues and Francisco ‘Micky’ Pacheco were not present when Crasto met with NCP functionaries, but Crasto and D’Souza insisted that the two remain with the party.

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