# Kharge to address Congress workers in Goa on August 17 2026-08-16T10:28:32+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will visit Goa on Monday, August 17, to address party workers at Verna village in South Goa, state party chief Girish Chodankar said. The visit is Kharge’s first to the state since he took over as the Congress national president, Chodankar added. The meeting comes as the Congress prepares for the Goa assembly election due early next year. In the 40-member House, the Congress has three MLAs, including Leader of the Opposition Yuri Alemao. The party had won 11 seats in the 2022 polls, but eight of its legislators later defected to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. ## Coverage - deccanherald.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: BJP, Congress, Goa, Mallikarjun Kharge Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/kharge-to-address-congress-workers-in-goa-on-august-17/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/kharge-to-address-congress-workers-in-goa-on-august-17/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/