As Girish Chodankar formally took over the helm of the state Congress unit on Friday, the Congress blew the poll bugle and urged all its workers to gear up for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Exhorting them to look beyond the debacle surrounding the 2017 state assembly polls, party workers, including Chodankar, said the time had come to expose the BJP government’s misdeeds.

“Goa needs to start working to ensure that in the 2019 elections, it is the Congress that forms the government at the Centre. Once that is done, the Congress will automatically form the government in Goa,” AICC secretary and Latur MLA Amit Deshmukh said while addressing a few hundred party supporters in the capital.