{"id":113583,"date":"2026-07-04T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=113583"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:27:56","slug":"amit-patkar-says-fight-is-against-bjp-not-girish-chodankar-reaffirms-commitment-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=113583","title":{"rendered":"Amit Patkar Says Fight Is Against BJP, Not Girish Chodankar; Reaffirms Commitment to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Goa Khabar:<\/strong>\u00a0Former Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President\u00a0<strong>Amit Patkar<\/strong>\u00a0on Saturday reaffirmed his commitment to the\u00a0<strong>Indian National Congress<\/strong>, stating that the party&#8217;s fight is against the\u00a0<strong>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)<\/strong>\u00a0and not against\u00a0<strong>GPCC President Girish Chodankar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the media after meeting&nbsp;<strong>AICC General Secretary K. C. Venugopal<\/strong>, Patkar said he would continue working for the Congress and remain dedicated to strengthening the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/03.07.26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/03.07.26.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/03.07.26-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, when asked whether he would work alongside or under the leadership of Girish Chodankar, Patkar did not give a direct response, leaving the question unanswered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His remarks came amid ongoing organisational discussions within the Goa Congress as the party prepares for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar:\u00a0Former Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President\u00a0Amit Patkar\u00a0on Saturday reaffirmed his commitment to the\u00a0Indian National Congress, stating that the party&#8217;s fight is against the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u00a0and not against\u00a0GPCC President Girish Chodankar. Speaking to the media after meeting&nbsp;AICC General Secretary K. C. Venugopal, Patkar said he would continue working for the Congress and remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":113584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[42,3794,38],"class_list":["post-113583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-congress","tag-featured","tag-goa"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113585,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113583\/revisions\/113585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}