Name Goa's 2 bridges after Bandodkar, Sequeira: Cong urges PM

The Goa Congress has demanded that the upcoming bridges on the Mandovi and Zuari rivers be named after the state's first Chief Minister Dayanand Bandodkar and iconic leader Dr Jack Sequeira.

The party Friday sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to consider the demand of naming the bridges after the two late leaders from the state.

The Goa government and the Centre are jointly constructing these two bridges. Union minister Nitin Gadkari is scheduled to inaugurate the third bridge over the Mandovi river on Sunday.

"The third bridge over river Mandovi would be thrown open to traffic very soon. Another bridge over river Zuari may take a year or two to complete. The bridges over rivers and other water bodies signify joining of two separate entities," Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) chief Girish Chodankar said in the letter to Modi.

"Naming them (these new bridges) after eminent Goans of yesteryears would be the perfect bridge for Goans connecting to