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The BJP swung into action and in no time formed a new BJP Mandal for Calangute under the leadership of Yeshwant Kandolkar and also established a new youth committee, Mahila Morcha and Minority Morcha in the coastal constituency.
The Calangute BJP Mandal was recently dissolved after former BJP Calangute MLA Michael Lobo quit the party and joined the Congress.
While Yeshwant Kandolkar was appointed president of the BJP Mandal, Sudesh Shirodkar and Gurudas Malvankar were declared as the new general secretaries and Shushant Matkar, Sagar Divkar and Laxman Parab as the vice presidents of the block.
Laxman Parab has been the former sarpanch of Calangute panchayat.
Sadanand Narvekar, Ramkrishna Kandolkar and Ulhas Shirodkar were appointed as secretaries of the Mandal, while Tulsidas Mandrekar, Gajanan Pednekar, Uday Gadekar, Latest Palkar, Dnayeshwar Matkar, Mahesh Chari, Dayanand Naik and Sanjeev Verlekar were announced as members.
The BJP also announced the formation of a new youth committee, Mahila Morcha and Minority Morcha.
Siddik Ankush Goverkar has been appointed as the President of the Youth Committee and Laxman Vengurlekar is the General Secretary.
Sameer Chodankar and Sachin Mandrekar are the Vice Presidents while Vaishnavi Palkar is the Secretary along with four members.
The Mahila Morcha comprises nine members led by Geeta Laxman Parab, former sarpanch of Calangute.
The four-member Minority Morcha has also been constituted with Virendra Pereira appointed as its president.
