New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said there is no collapse in the value of the Indian rupee and in fact, its performance against the US dollar is better than other major global currencies.

Panaji (Goa) [India], January 28 (ANI): Trinamool Congress Vice-President Luizinho Faleiro on Friday announced his withdrawal as a TMC candidate from Goa's Fatorda constituency for the upcoming Assembly polls.

Benaulim (Goa) [India], December 13 (ANI): In a major political development, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Goa chief minister Churchill Alemao joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday.

Panaji (Goa) [India], December 6 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) has announced a pre-poll alliance with Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, which are scheduled to be held early next year.

Panaji Nov 18 PTI Trinamool Congress Party leader Luizinho Faleiro on Thursday said Goa does not need to ape Gujarat or Bengal to solve its problems Goa does not want the Gujarat model or the Bengal model but needs a Goa model and that will happen only if the people of Goa decide whats best for Goa he said at a press conference hereIt is TMCs aim to ensure that Goans get good governance he addedFaleiro also slammed his detractors who have said his nomination to the Rajya Sabha was a retirement packageHe had not retired and he wanted to raise the coastal states issues in Parliament he saidFaleiro thanked party chairperson Mamata Banerjee for giving him the opportunity and added that he will not make compromises nor make empty promisesHe also accused the Congress of being involved in the wholesale business of selling MLAs and dividing votes PTI RPS KRK KRK KRK

Kolkata : Trinmool Congress on Saturday announced their candidate nomination for Rajya Sabha Polls. They have nominated its vice president and ex-cm of Goa, Luizinho Faleiro as a candidate for Rajya Sabha Polls. Faleiro, the former chief minister of Goa, had quit the Congress and joined the TMC in September. “We are extremely pleased to nominate @luizinhofaleiro to the Upper House of the Parliament. We are confident that his efforts towards serving the nation shall be appreciated widely by our people!” the TMC said on Twitter.

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 13 (ANI): The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Saturday nominated Luizinho Faleiro to the Rajya Sabha, more than a month after former Goa Chief Minister left the Congress to join the party.

Dona Paula (Goa) [India], October 13 (ANI): Independent MLA from Sanguem constituency, Prasad Sashikant Gaonkar, pledged absolute support to the Goa Trinamool Congress (TMC) at a formal event in Dona Paula on Wednesday and said that he would join the TMC once his term in the office comes to an end.

Panaji Sep 29 PTI All India Congress Committees Goa desk in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday claimed that the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC was doing the same thing in Goa what the BJP did to it in West Bengal The remarks came days after former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro resigned as Congress MLA ahead of the state polls due next year Faleiro is set to join the Trinamool Congress TMC in Kolkata on Wednesday in the presence of the party president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Talking to PTI Rao said the TMC was doing exactly the same thing what the BJP did to Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal Notably TMC leader Derek OBrien recently said that his party would be contesting the Goa Legislative Assembly elections due in February next year Trinamool means grassroot Mamata has worked at the grassroot level and has come up But where is the grassroot here Goa This looks like a BJP strategyof coming to Goa in chartered aircraft offering bags to people telling them that we will fund your election if you join us Rao said This is like trying to do what Mamata Didi alleged the BJP of doing in West Bengal what they were doing to form government before the West Bengal polls earlier this year getting ministers MLAs to defect she is doing the same thing here he said With the Congresss strength reduced to just four MLAs in the 40-member Goa Assembly Rao denied that the party had left space for others to enter the coastal state In 2017 polls the Aam Aadmi Party AAP came to Goa It was more in news that time compared to what Mamata is in the news today But it is not as simple as that The Congress had won 17 seats in the 2017 Goa polls Rao said On the exit of Luizinho Faleiro from the party Rao termed it as good riddance Not many people have gone with him not many people have joined him If you look at response on social media and from the party cadres everyone is saying good riddance Good for the party That is the response we are getting he added PTI RPS GK GK

Panaji (Goa) [India], September 27 (ANI): Former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro on Monday asserted that there is a need to unify all the fragments of the Congress party including Mamata's TMC, Jagan Mohan reddy's YSRCP, and Sharad Pawar's NCP to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre and state level.