Mangaluru, Apr 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will lay the foundation stone for the new office of Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee at Mallikatte here on Friday, said acting committee president Ibrahim Kodichal.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that the new Congress Bhavan for the district party unit and its members would be built on a nine cents plot of land at Mallikatte. The proposed building will cover around 9,350 sq feet and consist of four levels including an underground basement and three floors. There will be a meeting hall, conference hall, reception and offices of party leaders in the building, he said.
He said that the CM would formally lay the foundation stone for the building in a ceremony at 4 p.m. on Friday. The foundation-stone laying ceremony will be followed by a stage programme in Kadri, which will be presided over by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G Parameshwar.
Other guests on the occasion include former union minister M Veerappa Moily, Rajya Sabha member Oscar Fernandes, former union minister B Janardhan Poojary, revenue minister Shrinivas Prasad, urban development minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, forest minister B Ramanath Rai, health and family welfare minister U T Khader, sports and fisheries minister Abhayachandra Jain, Mayor of Mangaluru City Corporation Jacintha Vijaya Alfred, Belthangady MLA Vasanth Bangera, Mangaluru South MLA J R Lobo, Mangaluru North MLA B A Mohiuddin Bava, Puttur MLA Shakunthala Shetty and MLC Ivan D’Souza, he informed.
He added that the proposed building would be completed in a year’s time. Congress leaders Shashidhar Hegde, Mayor Jacintha Vijaya Alfred and others were present on the occasion.
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