PANAJI: After dissolving its Goa working committee, the Aam Aadmi Party has appointed Advocate Amit Palekar as its president and its two MLAs Venzy Viegas and Cruz D'Silva as working presidents.
Palekar, the party's chief ministerial candidate for the 2022 elections came in third in St Cruz.
The party has nominated six vice presidents- Valmiki Naik, Surel Tilve, Ramrao Wagh, Cecille Rodrigues, Sandesh Telekar and Patricia Fernandes. Naik said the new team is a fantastic mix of experienced party workers and youth.
AAP's Delhi legislator in charge of Goa, Atishi said the the party has restructured its working committee to ready itself for the next assembly elections in the State in 2027. She said AAP will win the elections in 2027 and is starting work now itself. Besides winning the elections, the party is the voice of people and will regularly raise issues affecting citizens.
Rajesh Calangutkar, Ritesh Chodankar, Gersom Gomes, Premanand (Babu) Nanuskar have been appointed organisation secretaries. Upendra Gaonkar has been appointed general secretary (frontal organisations) and Francis Coelho general secretary (campaign and communication).
Pratima Coutinho has been appointed as its women's wing president, Anil Gaonkar as ST wing president, Adv Anoop Kudtarkar as its youth wing president, James Fernandes as its minority wing president and Sarfaraz Ankalgi as its minority wing vice president.
Prashant Naik, Lincoln Vaz, Roque Mascarenhas, Roshini Gawas, Mahesh Satalkar, Uday Salkar, Abhijit Desai and Mario Cordeiro have been appointed as joint secretaries (organisation building). Dr Vibhas and Neri Fernandes are joint secretaries (coordination) and Adv Prasad Shahpurkar, Adv Sunil Loran and Adv Vishni Naik have been appointed to the party's legal cell.
Besides two MLAs the party also has a ZP member.
