Newsinc24 Team 
The Election Commission is yet to announce the assembly poll schedule but the Congress party on Thursday announced its first list of eight candidates for the upcoming state assembly elections in Goa early next year. In a tweet, the party announced the list of candidates for the assembly seats of Mapusa, Taleigao, Ponda, Marmugao, Curtorim, Margao, Cuncolim and Quepem.Former chief minister Digambar Vasant Kamat has been fielded from the Margao constituency, which he won in the 2017 assembly polls. Another sitting MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco will contest from his current seat of Curtorim.An official communication from the party announcing the names of candidates said they were selected by the central election committees chaired by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
The first list of candidates selected by the Central Election Committee for the forthcoming elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa pic.twitter.com/rOmwRRfARL
— INC Sandesh (@INCSandesh) December 16, 2021
In November the party had constituted its election committee for the state with senior leader Dinesh Gundu Rao as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge and Girish Chodankar as the chairman. Other members include Digambar Kamat, Alex Sequeira, Reginaldo Lowrenco, Pratap Singh Rane, Francisco Sardinha, Ramakant Khalap, MK Shaikh and Pramod Salgaonkar.
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