During his visit to Goa, former minister P Chidambaram will
meet with a number of leaders and party officials in order to gather
information for the Congress' election strategy.
PANAJI: P Chidambaram, the former Union finance and home
minister, arrived in Goa on Wednesday to meet with the state Congress
leadership and assess the party's preparations for the upcoming assembly
elections.
Chidambaram met with AICC desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao,
AICC observers Prakash Rathod and Mansoor Khan, state party president Girish
Chodankar, and leader of the opposition in the Goa assembly Digambar Kamat, among
others, after being appointed as the senior All India Congress Committee (AICC)
election observer for Goa on August 9.
The former finance minister did not speak to the media
during his two-day visit. Later, M K Shaikh, the secretary of the Goa Pradesh
Congress Committee, said Chidambaram would meet with various leaders and party
officials. “He will meet with PCC office-bearers, frontal organizations,
district and block presidents, and take their input to develop strategies for
the upcoming assembly elections,” says the statement. “The AICC has appointed
him to oversee election strategies for the Goa assembly elections,” Shaikh
explained.
