Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Goa on December 19 to participate in the closing ceremony of State's 60th Liberation Day, said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning.
"Honorable PM will come to Goa on the occasion of Liberation Day on 19th December. The tentative schedule and programme will be given from the PM office but he is sure to come down to Goa," he told reporters.
"PM will be attending floral tribute at Azad Maidan in Panjim where all three forces will take the salute. The later PM will move towards Shyama prasad stadium for function from 3.30-5.30 pm. There will be various awards, felicitation, freedom fighters felicitation, virtual inauguration of different projects, will be held at the stadium," Sawant added.
Goa Liberation Day is observed on December 19 every year. It commemorates the freeing of Goa from Portuguese rule by the Indian Armed Forces in December 1961 and the complete independence of the Indian subcontinent.
It marks the day Indian armed forces freed Goa in 1961 following 450 years of Portuguese rule. While India gained independence on August 15, 1947, Goa was still mouldering under Portuguese rule.