New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is in the coastal state for a one-day visit ahead of the Goa Assembly elections due early next year, kicked a football into the crowd at the Congress Workers’ Convention at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Talegao on Saturday. .
“Let’s start a new era for Goa!” Gandhi tweeted while sharing the video of him kicking the football.
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Earlier in the day, Congress leaders arrived on the back of a ‘pilot’ at Azad Maidan, the memorial of martyrs in Goa’s capital.
The Goa unit of the Congress party tweeted a video showing the former party chief riding on the back of a ‘pilot’, a traditional motorcycle taxi in the coastal state.
Goa Congress tweeted, “Rahul Gandhi rides ‘Pilot’ – a traditional motorcycle taxi in Goa.”
Earlier, the former Congress President interacted with members of the fishing community in the coastal village of Velsao.
Gandhi also shared his interaction with the fishermen community on Twitter, saying “their special lives and livelihoods need special attention”.
“Live- my conversations with the fishermen of Goa. Their special lives and livelihoods need special attention,” Gandhi tweeted along with the video of their conversation.
“Dear fishermen brothers and sisters, our conversation today was a sea of emotions. Let us all together save the soul, environment and culture of Goa. #GoaWithCongress,” he wrote on the micro-blogging platform.
Elections to the 40-member Goa Assembly will be held next year.
In the 2017 assembly elections, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in Goa by winning 17 seats in the 40-member house, but could not form the government.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won 13 seats, formed an alliance with some independents and regional parties to form the government in the coastal state.
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