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PANAJI
Congress national president Rahul Gandhi will address the woes of the mining dependents though the government has been ignoring them for the past year, state president Girish Chodankar said on Wednesday.
“The government has troubled the mining dependents a lot. Rahul Gandhi will listen to their grievances as well as to the grievances of those affected by coal pollution and the new Coastal Regulatory Zone notification,” Chodankar said, addressing the press alongside Goa in-charge Dr Chella Kumar.
Gandhi will address around 12,000 Congress party workers on March 8 at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium at Bambolim at around 6 in the evening for around an hour and a half.
All the state committee members, booth level workers and party MLAs are set to be present, said Chodankar, while Gandhi will also hold a separate meeting with the MLAs.
With Gandhi’s visit to Goa, Chodankar said the party is set to get a fresh surge of enthusiasm before the Goa by-polls in which the party will contest three seats, and the Lok Sabha polls in which the party will contest two seats.
“We’re confident of winning both the by-polls and the Lok Sabha elections,” said Chodankar, adding that the party had already started its work in Mapusa.
“We’re taking up peoples’ issues. We’ll tell the people what the Congress is doing and also expose the lies of the government,” he said.
Meanwhile Chodankar said that Gandhi had started preparing the Congress manifesto which was a peoples’ manifesto.
