Panaji: Just a month ahead of Assembly Elections, and four weeks after switching to the Trinamool Congress from the Congress former Goa MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco on Sunday quit the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC.
He was the MLA from Curtorim and was the working president of the Goa Congress when he quit the party and the state assembly in December.
Not stating the reason, he left the party. In his letter to Mamata Banerjee he has not revealed the reason of quitting the party, and has just shared his decision with her.
The move instantly prompted an invitation from BJP-turned-Congress leader Micheal Lobo for Lourenco to return to the Congress.
The Trinamool Congress has confirmed his resignation in a statement.
“AITC has received a letter from Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco resigning from party’s primary membership. We had welcomed him into the party as we have countless others. Now that he wishes to leave, we wish him well,” the party’s Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra said.
Reports say Lourenco could rejoin the Congress and fight from the Curtorim seat as announced by the party before he quit.
Congress had not announced an alternative candidate for the Curtorim seat after the MLA had left.
However, it had reacted sharply to Mr Lourenco’s resignation, saying people who betray the trust will face the consequences and that voters will teach him a “befitting lesson”.
The politician was among various new entrants in the Trinamool ahead of these elections which have seen the party take a more assertive stance facing off with the Congress for the position of the dominant opposition party.
A few months before him, former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro had also quit the Congress and joined the Trinamool.
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