Luizinho Faleiro, a Congress MLA and former Goa chief minister, resigned as an MLA and from the Congress party on Monday, ahead of his planned entrance into the Trinamool Congress later today.
Faleiro was a member of the All-India Congress Committee and a long-time Congress supporter close to Sonia Gandhi. He is irritated with the party’s top command’s choice to keep current Congress president Girish Chodankar. He gave the Speaker a brief resignation letter just afternoon. Speaker Rajesh Patnekar quickly accepted his resignation, and he is likely to be notified soon.
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Mamata has fought Narendra Modi and his juggernaut the hardest of all four Congresses; the Mamata formula has triumphed. We, too, in Goa, are going through a terrible period. Such fighters are desperately needed.
Faleiro was elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly in 1979 and has represented the Navelim constituency ever since, except for ten years between 2007 and 2017, when he lost his seat to Save Goa Front challenger Churchill Alemo. Alemo is now a member of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Faleiro served as chief minister of Goa during two brief periods during the state’s volatile political years, during which the state had 13 chief ministers in twelve years. He went on a junket to Australia in 1999 as a CM, only to return to find Francisco Sardinha, the current Congress South Goa MP, had assumed his post.
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The TMC’s arrival into Goa’s political scene is expected to split the state’s already congested political landscape. Aside from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress, the Goa Forward Party has three MLAs. The NCP has one MLA, and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) has one MLA. He was in charge of the northeastern states as the general secretary of the All-India Congress Committee.
