President Ramnath Kovind is attending the 60th Goa liberation day being held in Panaji on December 19, 2020.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and many other dignitaries have greeted the people of Goa on this occasion
- Goa was known in the bygone days as Gomanchala, Gopakapattam, Gopakapuri, Govapuri, Gomantak, etc.
- Goa was liberated from Portuguese rule of around 450 years on the 19th of December 1961.
- On 30 May 1987 Goa was conferred statehood by the 56th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1987.
