Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Dec 8: Former city mayor, K Ashraf, will take over as the new president of the city unit of the Congress on Thursday December 9. A ceremony in this connection is being organized at 5 pm on Thursday at Scouts and Guides Hall in Lalbagh in the city, informed party leader, Suresh Ballal, addressing a press conference here on Tuesday December 7.
Before the function, a procession of Congress activists will be taken out from Gandhi Sons in Bunder here to the venue of the ceremony, at 3 pm. Former union minister, B Janardan Poojary, Rajya Sabha member, Oscar Fernandes, district Congress president, B Ramanath Rai, C M Ibrahim, Krishna Byre Gowda, and several others will be taking part in the procession, he explained.
Congress leaders, Ivan D’Souza, Shashidhar Hegde, Harinath, Lancelot Pinto, and Navin D’Souza, were present at the press conference.