Setback For Mamata: Ex-Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro Resigns From TMC, Rajya Sabha

Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has accepted his resignation with immediate effect, news agency ANI reported citing Rajya Sabha sources.

Ex-Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro resigned from TMC, Rajya Sabha

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress's Rajya Sabha MP and former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro has resigned from the Upper House of Parliament today. Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has accepted his resignation with immediate effect, news agency ANI reported citing Rajya Sabha sources.

“I have resigned from TMC. I will not be joining any party at the moment,” Faleiro told The Indian Express.

TMC MP Luizinho Faleiro resigns from Rajya Sabha, submits his resignation letter to Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. pic.twitter.com/aR40t9xa1H

— ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2023

Long being sidelined from the party affairs in Goa, Faleiro was being nudged by the TMC leadership to resign from the Rajya Sabha, according to PTI.

The Mamata Banerjee-led party has been upset with Faleiro after he refused to contest the 2022 Assembly election from Fatorda against Goa Forward Party's Vijai Sardesai, PTI reported citing TMC sources.

When the TMC made a much-hyped foray in the coastal state, it had asked Rajya Sabha MP Arpita Ghosh, who had a term till 2026, to quit and sent Faleiro to the Upper House in 2021.

Faleiro joined the All-India Trinamool Congress in September 2021 after quitting the Congress party. He was then appointed the national Vice President of the party by Mamata Banerjee and two months later given a Rajya Sabha ticket replacing Trinamool MP Arpita Ghosh.