Former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro to join TMC tomorrow

"Former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro will join the TMC tomorrow at 4 pm," a source told India Blooms.

Along with Faleiro, several other leaders have also landed in Kolkata.

Faleiro, who has praised West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, resigned both as an MLA and Congress member a day ago.
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"Mamata Banerjee is a symbol of women empowerment. She is fighting divisive forces and poses a direct challenge to BJP. She is a street-fighter and Goa needs her," Faleiro said Tuesday.

The development comes days after TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said his party will plunge into Goa politics, throwing a challenge to his arch-rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules the state.

The TMC has already activated its organisation in Tripura and Assam, which are also governed by the BJP.

Abhishek Banerjee announced his plans to expand his party after the TMC decimated the BJP in bitterly-fought 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections, where the saffron party threw everything to assume power for the first time.

At present, the TMC has no base in Goa, where the Congress had failed to form the government despite emerging as the single largest party in 2017 elections.

Like TMC, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has also launched its campaign in the coastal state.

It would be interesting to see whether the AAP and TMC, two powerful regional satraps, find any possibility of an alliance to take on the saffron brigade in Goa, where elections will be held early next year.