Panaji (Goa) [India], August 30 (ANI): After Congress announced that Girish Chodankar will continue as the president of Goa Congress on Monday, he expressed gratitude to the party's interim president Sonia Gandhi for continuing trust in him.

New Delhi Aug 30 PTI Ahead of the Goa assembly elections the Congress on Monday appointed Alexio Sequeira as the working president of the partys state unit while Girish Chodankar will remain its presidentFormer chief minister Luizinho Falerio has been appointed chairperson of the election co-ordination committee and M K Shaikh its convenorGoa goes to polls early next year to elect its 40-member assembly and the Congress seeks to wrest control of the state from the BJPCongress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the proposal for the continuance of Girish Chodankar as the president Goa Pradesh Congress Committee GPCC and Digambar Kamat as the CLP Leader of Goa a statement issued by the party saidThe Congress president has also appointed Alexio Sequeira as the working president of the GPCC with immediate effect it saidReginaldo Lourenco has been appointed chairperson of the campaign committee for the state while Sangeetha Parab has been made its co-chairpersonFrancisco Sardinha has been made the chairperson of the finance committee and Pramoda Salgaocar its co-chairperson the statement said Ramakant Khalap and Elvis Gomes have been made chairperson and co-chairperson of the manifesto committee while Chandrakant Chodankar and Martha Saldanha have been appointed as chairperson and co-chairperson of the publicity committee of the GPCC it saidPTI SKC ANB ANB