Former Goa Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Luizinho Feleiro took over as president of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) in Panaji on Tuesday.
Mr. Faleiro replaced John Fernandes who had courted several controversies during his brief tenure as president of the GPCC. Mr. Faleiro, who was General Secretary of All India Congress Committee in-charge of North Eastern States earlier, promised to play a role that of a catalyst to tap immense potential among the party rank and file in Goa.
Referring to the debacles of the Congress in 2012 State Assembly election and again similar drubbing the party faced in 2014 Lok Sabha polls in the State, Mr. Faleiro said, “Let me be frank. The results of the Assembly election and thereafter the Lok Sabha election were shockingly bad.”
“We have, however, also made mistakes. We have to accept our mistakes in all humility,” he told party members and promised to take all partymen along with him to revitalise the party in the state.
Instead of confining himself to Congress house in the State capital, Mr. Faleiro promised cadres that he will visit the villages of Goa and try to understand their problems before solveing them.
