Goa assembly elections: Setback for Congress as Luizinho Faleiro quits party to join TMC, calls Mamata a ‘street-fighter’

Luizinho Faleiro, a seven-time Congress MLA and two-time Goa Chief Minister, resigned as he called TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee a "street-fighter".

The Congress suffered a major setback ahead of the assembly polls in Goa after its veteran leader Luizinho Faleiro quit the party to join the Trinamool Congress. Faleiro, a seven-time Congress MLA and two-time Goa Chief Minister, resigned as he called TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee a “street-fighter”.

“Goa is going through difficult times and it needs such fighters, which are also in the same wavelength, same party ideology, policies, principles and programs. I am a Congressman, and I would like in the larger picture for all the Congress parties to come together and fight the next Parliament elections,” Faleiro said.

The Congress veteran added that he suffered in dignified silence in Congress. He tendered his resignation from his seat in the House. He was the MLA from south Goa’s Navelim.

The TMC has already announced its plans to contest the next year’s Goa Assembly elections. According to The Indian Express, Banerjee’s party is aiming to contest all 40 seats in the state.