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PANAJI
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday approved a jumbo-size 100-member Goa Pradesh Congress Committee under its president Girish Chodankar, marking a generational shift of sorts in the ‘grand old party’ by slotting ‘elders’ led by Pratapsing Rane as ‘permanent invitees’ and drafting in dozens of new faces as office bearers.
The committee with 12 vice-presidents, an identical number of general secretaries, 26 secretaries and 23 executive members, was released to the media in a press release issued by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who continues to hold the AICC General Secretary’s responsibility at the AICC headquarters. In addition, the GPCC released by Gehlot also includes 18 “permanent invitees” and a Media Department headed by former Union minister Ramakant Khalap and Adv Sunil Khautankar as the Chief Spokesman. Seven other spokesmen named are: Jitendra Deshprabhu, Urfan Mulla, Sidhanath Buyav, Swati Kerkar, Vithu Morajkar, Adv. Rohit Braz D’Sa and Architect Tulio D’Souza.
Meanwhile, five former chief ministers find themselves named “permanent invitees” without any specific responsibility assigned. They are Pratapsingh Rane, Luizinho Faleiro, Ravi Naik, Digambar Kamat and Francisco Sardinha.
Former two-term Rajya Sabha MP, John Fernandes, however is a notable omission from the party organization.
Also in the list of ‘permanent invitees’ are former Union ministers Eduardo Faleiro and Ramakant Khalap, former PCC chief Irene Barros, ex-MP Ramakant Angle and MLAs Jennifer Monserrate, Antonio Fernandes, Francis Silveira, Clafacio Dias and Isidore Fernandes.
The four frontal organisation chiefs are also ‘permanent invitees’.
Chodankar, meanwhile, claimed that Gandhi has strictly followed the one-man-one-post norm in finalising the list.
Heading the list of vice-presidents is Velim legislator Filipe Neri Rodrigues and it includes Tivim MLA, Nilkant Halarnkar, Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginald Lourenco, MK Shaikh, Moti Desai, ex-MGP MLA Dharma Chodankar, Dr. (Ms.) Pramod Salgaonkar, Altinho Gomes, Babi Bagkar,
Gurudas Natekar, Vithoba Dessai and Sankalp Amonkar.
Ex-Calangute MLA Agnelo Fernandes heads the list of 12 general secretaries and it includes Sagun Wadkar, Subhash Phaldesai, Tribolo Souza, Amarnath Panjikar, Vijay Pai, Adv Yatish Naik, Ms Ezilda Sapecho, Janardhan S Bhandari, Pradip Naik, Joseph Vaz and Mrs. Sunita Verenkar.
The PCC secretaries are: Mario Pinto, Mohan Dhond, Atul Verlekar, Damodar B Shirodkar, Saifula Khan, Deelip Dhargalkar, Ritesh Naik, Govind Phaldesai, Franky Pires, Ms Savitri Kavlekar, Sheikh Shabbir, Rajnikant P. Naik, Nanu Bandolkar, Narayan Redkar, Khemlo Sawant, Anand Naik Mahadev P. Desai, John D Costa, Subhash Kerkar, Nilkant Gawas, Dharmesh Saglani, Shanu Sanklu Velip, Dr. Dinesh Jalmi, Moreno Carlos Rebelo, Mariano Rodrigues and Everson Valles.
Opposition Leader Chandrakant Babu Kavlekar and Nuvem MLA Wilfred D’Sa are drafted in as executive members along with 21 others namely Prashant Chanekar, Vijay Banaulikar, Amilcar Alvares, Upendra P Ratwal, Gluck D Souza, Surendra Furtado, Sameer Pai Raikar, Chrispino Gomes, Hemant Samant, Daya Pagi, Ramkrishna Jalmhi, Prasad Sambari, Sudin Naik, Nitin Prabhudessai, Doris Texeira, Yatin Parikh, Edwin Barreto, Subhod Amonkar, Rafik Sheikh, Vishwanath Halankar and Chrispino Lobo.
