Former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro resigns as Congress MLA, likely to join TMC
The Hindu
With his resignation, the Congress's strength in the 40-member House has been reduced to four.
Former Goa Chief Minister and Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro resigned as member of the State Legislative Assembly on Monday and is likely to join the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Minutes before resigning, Mr. Faleiro praised West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC head Mamata Banerjee and said the country needs a leader like her to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mr. Faleiro, who represented the Navelim Assembly seat and was recently made the Goa Congress's campaign committee chief in the wake of the state polls due next year, submitted his resignation to Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.